string_length

This function returns the number of characters comprising a given string. It can be useful for things like working out when to limit a custom text entry's character length (eg: capping a player's name to 10 characters). Remember that this is different to string_width() in that it measures the number of characters in the string, not its width as drawn on the screen in pixels.

Syntax:

string_length(string);

Returns:

Real

Example:

if (string_length(name) > 10)
   {
   name = string_copy(name, 1, 10);
   }

This will check if the string of name is greater than ten characters and if it is, it will copy and use the first ten characters only.