changequote({,}) define({_TITLE_},{Varkon MBS Programmers manual}) define({_SUBTITLE_},{- textl - Function}) define({_INDEXLINK_},{index}) define({_STYLE_},{../varkonstyle.css}) include(../../include/header.inc)
Returns the space in model units required to display a string with the text() procedure. The number of characters in the string and the current values of TSIZE and TWIDTH are used to compute the exact length in millimeters.
l:=textl(s); float l; string s;
s | - Any string. |
None.
A FLOAT value equal to the length of the text.
textl() returns the length of a text. To retrive the height of a text use the function act_tsize().
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