.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.\" References consulted:
.\"     Linux libc source code
.\"     Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
.\"     386BSD man pages
.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:02:26 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.TH STRLEN 3  "April 12, 1993" "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
strlen \- calculate the length of a string
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <string.h>
.sp
.BI "size_t strlen(const char *" s );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The \fBstrlen()\fP function calculates the length of the string 
\fIs\fP, not including the terminating `\\0' character.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
The \fBstrlen()\fP function returns the number of characters in \fIs\fP.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR string (3)