5.2.2 Predicates that operate on strings
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  • Documentation
    • Reference manual
      • SWI-Prolog extensions
        • The string type and its double quoted syntax
          • Predicates that operate on strings
            • atom_string/2
            • number_string/2
            • term_string/2
            • term_string/3
            • string_chars/2
            • string_codes/2
            • string_bytes/3
            • text_to_string/2
            • string_length/2
            • string_code/3
            • get_string_code/3
            • string_concat/3
            • split_string/4
            • sub_string/5
            • atomics_to_string/2
            • atomics_to_string/3
            • string_upper/2
            • string_lower/2
            • read_string/3
            • read_string/5
            • open_string/2
    • Packages
Availability:built-in
string_length(+String, -Length)
Unify Length with the number of characters in String. This predicate is functionally equivalent to atom_length/2 and also accepts anytext as its first argument. Numeric types are formatted into strings before the length of their string representation is determined.175This behavior should be considered deprecated See also write_length/3.