length of a string with CGI

Can anyone tell me the CGI function to get the length of a string??

perl has a million string functions, i would recommend that.

hehe I know it has but I don't know the functions! can you tell me at least some of them?

one other thing I would like to know:
how can I retrieve the current data? and don't tell me there's a function to do that ;) because I don't know the function!

there are perl functions to do all that

although i left my perl brain at home with my Ultimate Bulletin Board

i have my VBS brain with me at werk

and can you use

len(variablename)

to get length?

no it produced an error :(

the len function was meant to be used in a ASP page :)