how to count a string without aa 0 terminator

[Rainstorm]

Hi,..

How do i count a string without a 0 terminator
like for exaample with the following decleration.

word1 db "String"

thanks...

[EddieB]

If you have it declared as so, can you not just use the length? ( '6' )

[Tedd]

"sizeof word1" will give you its length in the code.
If you do null-terminate it, but want the length not including the zero, then you can do "(sizeof word1)-1"

[Rainstorm]

Thankyou Ted.

Rainstorm

[edit]
eddieB wrote

If you have it declared as so, can you not just use the length? ( '6'

yes, meant the length/(no of chars)....but i wanted to know
how i could get the value  in the code.