Still: How to get the length of a string literal?

[Emile_Schwarz]

Still not possible to do as we could in API1:
foo = Len(“Emile”)

Other entry, two years ago:

How to get the length of a string literal?

In the good old times I made code like this: dim s as Integer = len("test") I know that I should do constants and what not. But sometimes I don’t want to. How do I do this in API2? A "test".length doesn’t work. Do I have to use a constant or property in API2?

[Michel_Bujardet]

var s as string = "test"
system.DebugLog s.length.ToString

[Thomas_ROBISSON]

I’m pretty sure I read an answer to this problem but I don’t remember.
It was something like
MyLen = String("Test string").lenght

[Ian_Kennedy]

I think it is actually:

MyLen = ctype("Test string", String).length

[Emile_Schwarz]

Thank you all.

The answers are creatives. I have another word to qualify some of them, but I prefer to use Michel’s solution (shortest, and clear / easy to read / easy to write).

Why my head is moving from left to right and right to left ?

BTW: I needed the length to position the Cursor after that text in a TextArea to insert some String there…