Nikolai Weibull wrote: >On 9/19/07, Charles E Campbell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>let x='grĂ¼n' >>echo "strlen(x)=".strlen(x) >> >>Thus, strlen() returns 5, not 4 as one might (sometimes) expect. >> >> > >Here's what I have in one my base library: > >function now#mbc#len(str) > return strlen(substitute(a:str, '.', 'c', 'g')) >endfunction > >Which is incredibly much better than your solution ;-). > > Well, I came up with another solution, but it still isn't as good as yours! Shouldn't strlen() just handle this on its own? With C or C++, one may be wanting to use the output of strlen() to help with allocating memory to hold a string; I don't see any of that application with Vim.
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