Explain the 'strlen' function.

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to find the length of the given string strlen() It is used to returns the length of the string. x = strlen(“Welcome”) printf("%d",x); we can get the answer is 7
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The strlen() function in C calculates the length of a given string. The strlen() function is defined in string.h header file. It doesn’t count the null character ‘\0’. // c program to demonstrate // example of strlen() function. #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int...
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The strlen() function in C calculates the length of a given string. The strlen() function is defined in string.h header file. It doesn’t count the null character ‘\0’. // c program to demonstrate // example of strlen() function. #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main() { // defining string char str[] = "Hello"; // getting length of str using strlen() int length = strlen(str); printf("Length of string is : %d", length); return 0; } read less
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