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Calculating length of strings
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   The length of a string can be calculated by `len':

     len(STRING)

which expands to the length of STRING, as a decimal number.

     len()
     =>0
     len(`abcdef')
     =>6

   The builtin macro `len' is recognized only when given arguments.