"length operator" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: length operators [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} length operator (plural length operators)
  1. (programming) An operator that returns the length of a string in bytes, characters, or code points, or the number of consecutive numerically indexed values in a table or array.

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