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"