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HELP PRINTLENGTH A. Sloman, July 1983 printlength(<item>) -> <number_of_characters>; Given any item as argument, PRINTLENGTH returns the number of characters that would be printed by a call of pr(<item>); *PR may be locally redefined by the user, but must use *CUCHAROUT for its output. See also HELP *PR - variable which holds a printing procedure HELP *CUCHAROUT - holds a character consumer HELP *PRINT - for other printing procedures REF *SYSIO - for more on I/O procedures