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What is the difference between .length() and strlen() ?

1st Apr 2017, 8:50 AM
chris
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Now this is a good question. Assuming we have: string str = "hello"; str.length() and strlen(str.c_str()) both returns 5. However, as you can see, we cannot do strlen(str). This is because strlen() only accepts const char* data type, which means that we have to convert string variable into const char* before passing it into strlen(). In the above example, I used c_str() for conversion. Function length() does not have this limitation.
1st Apr 2017, 8:56 AM
Hatsy Rei
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length() is more efficient than strlen() in the terms of latency.
2nd Apr 2017, 5:52 PM
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