Synopsis:
$ absstrlen (<string>)
Technical:
This function is used to determine the length, in characters, of a given
string, while stripping ansi codes from it.
Practical:
This function is the same as $strlen() except that it will strip
ansicodes from the string so it will count everything but the
ansicodes.
Returns:
>0 number of characters in string
0 no string given
Examples:
$abbstrlen($cparse("%ghello")) returns "5"
