ustrlen(3alleg4)

💖 ustrlen 💖

okay bestie, so this is ustrlen from the Allegro manual, section 3alleg4 — yes it's a game programming library, yes it's iconic, we move.

✨ NAME ✨

ustrlen — tells you the number of characters in a string. that's it, that's the whole job. from the Allegro game programming library 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

int ustrlen(const char *s);

like, just pull in the header and call it, no drama 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this function returns the number of characters in s. counts the characters, periodt.

and here's the tea, the part that lowkey trips people up: this doesn't have to equal the string's size in bytes 😭. characters ≠ bytes, bestie, that's the whole vibe check. ustrlen is counting characters — actual letters and glyphs and stuff — not how much memory the thing is hogging. iykyk.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• uconvert(3alleg4)
• ustrsize(3alleg4)
• ustrsizez(3alleg4)

go read those too, they're giving complementary energy 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this was Allegro, version 4.4.3, serving you this manual page in the 3alleg4 section. slay, stay hydrated, and may your strings always be character-correct ✨🎀🦋