[36] in bug-owl
yonah was imprecise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Thu Jun 27 13:37:48 2002
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
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Date: 25 Jun 2002 18:41:06 -0400
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yonah asked for a way to get the output length of a string. A better
way to do this is a plain() function which strips all formatting.
Then you can call length() on this.
Marc