/*
** Just a simple function I came up with to return the length of a string
** that contains MXP/HTML tags.  Based on the col_strlen function.
**
** My only request for using it is to leave the comment that with my name.
*/


Add the following line in one of your headers (proto.h, merc.h, mud.h or
which ever you use):

void	mxp_strlen		args( ( char *txt ) );


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Add the following function to one of your C files:

/*
** Mxp_strlen by Jindrak (jindrak@gmail.com)
*/
int mxp_strlen( char *txt )
{
    int pos = 0, len = 0;

    while(txt[pos] != NUL)
    {
        switch(txt[pos])
        {
            default:
                pos++;
                break;
            case '<':
                while(txt[pos++] != '>')
                    ;

                len--;
                break;
        }

        len++;
    }

    return( len );
}