[dowster]

I'm trying to use uuencode and uudecode to just make a simple encoding system for saving strings, for uuencode it needs the number of bytes, how can i detect the length of the number. for example if it is a six digit number like 123456 the function will scan and return 6? for some reason doing if( var >= 0 & var<= 9) seems like it'd be old fashioned.