From: Andy Dougherty Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:58:46 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Re: STRLEN - what? X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7c906a97440119821f7675afe89374991b82a728;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Re: STRLEN - what? Message-ID: Explain STRLEN. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@7997 --- diff --git a/pod/perlguts.pod b/pod/perlguts.pod index c069e88..ded9191 100644 --- a/pod/perlguts.pod +++ b/pod/perlguts.pod @@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ L). This pointer may be NULL if that information is not important. Note that this function requires you to specify the length of the format. +STRLEN is an integer type (Size_t, usually defined as size_t in +config.h) guaranteed to be large enough to represent the size of +any string that perl can handle. + The C functions are not generic enough to operate on values that have "magic". See L later in this document.