User Guide

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Availability

Flash Player 4. This function, along with all the string functions, was deprecated in Flash 5.

Macromedia recommends that you use the methods of the String class and the

String.length

property to perform the same operations.

Usage

length(expression)

length(variable)

Parameters

expression

A string.

variable The name of a variable.

Returns

The length of the specified string or variable.

Description

String function; returns the length of the specified string or variable.

Example

The following example returns the length of the string "Hello":

length("Hello");

The result is 5.