How to get length of a string in Octave?

Question

How do I get the length of a string in Octave?

I looked here and here and here for some equivalent to PHP's strlen(), but I did not find anything.

Answer 1

As the first link you posted explains, strings are just matrices, so you can use the regular matrix operations, for instance length.

> x = "teststring";
> length(x)
ans = 10