len

Number of characters in a string.

Syntax

v = len(text)

Description

Returns the number of characters in text. Treats every character as one unit, regardless of byte width. For byte-counting (multi-byte characters counted by their byte length), use lenb.

Example

len('hello')           % 5

See also

• lenb — Number of bytes in a string.
• left — First N characters of a string.
• right — Last N characters of a string.
• mid — Substring starting at a given position.