determing the length of a string

[tougo]

how can i determine the length of characters used in a sting?
for a example the string "i like tea" has 10 characters (including the blank ones)and after getting the length of the string to make each string 15 character long adding a single character until reaching the desired length
for example "i like tea" to become "i like teaOOOOO"

the strings are in textboxes

(ok i know it's sounds completely silly)

 

[qednick]

If it's a c style string (ie. char*) then use the strlen() function:[tt]

char str[100] = "hello";
int length = strlen(str);[/tt]

If you're using MFC and CStrings you can use the CString::GetLength() function:[tt]

CString str = "hello";
int length = str.GetLength();

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