std::char_traits::length

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Technical Specifications

Strings library

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Classes

basic_string

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char_traits

std::char_traits

Member functions

char_traits::assign

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char_traits::copy

char_traits::compare

char_traits::length

char_traits::find

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char_traits::eq_int_type

char_traits::eof

char_traits::not_eof

static std::size_t length( const char_type* s );		(until C++17)
static constexpr std::size_t length( const char_type* s );		(since C++17)

Returns the length of the character sequence pointed to by s, that is, the position of the terminating null character (CharT()).

Parameters

s

-

pointer to a character sequence to return length of

Return value

The length of character sequence pointed to by s.

Exceptions

(none)

Complexity

Linear.

Example

Run this code

#include <iostream>

void print(const char* str)
{
  std::cout << "string '" << str << "' ";
  std::cout << "length = " << std::char_traits<char>::length(str) << '\n';
}

int main()
{
  print("foo");

  std::string s("booo");
  print(s.c_str());
}

Output:

string 'foo' length = 3
string 'booo' length = 4