Re: Length() is bits/bytes or neither

[zsdc]

Hanson, Rob wrote:

length() returns the length in characters, which for ASCII is also the
number of bytes.  To get the bits, just multiply by 8.
If you are using a Unicode character set instead, I'm not too sure what will
be returned, or how you can convert it to bits.
  #!/usr/bin/perl -wl
  use utf8;
  sub bytes ($) {
      use bytes;
      length $_[0];
  }
  $x = chr 123456;
  print length $x, " chars";
  print bytes $x, " bytes";
-zsdc.



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