Getting the length of a string

Question

How do I get the length of a string programmatically, in Inform 6?

Answer 1

http://www.firthworks.com/roger/informfaq/ii.html suggests this solution which is two-part and thus a bit awkward. I suspect there is a better one. Given a string "string" and integer strLength,

string.print_to_array(array);
strLength = array-->0;

This would give the string length. I couldn't find a better way to do this. you'll probably want to put this in a function, but my I6 is just really rusty, so this is the best I've got. Hope this helps.