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length

Availability

Flash Player 4. This function, along with all of the string functions, has been deprecated in Flash 5. It is recommended that you use the methods and length property of the String object to perform the same operations.

Usage

length(expression)
length(variable)

Parameters

expression A string.

variable The name of a variable.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

String function; returns the length of the specified string or variable name.

Example

The following example returns the value of the string "Hello".

length("Hello");

The result is 5.

See also

" " (string delimiter), String.length