Programming-Idioms

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Idiom #169 String length

Assign to integer n the number of characters of string s.

This can be different from the number of bytes of s.

Assign to integer n the number of characters of string s.

This can be different from the number of bytes of s.

size characters chars number runes

size characters chars number runes

n = string:length(s)

N = string:length(S)

length(String::unicode:chardata()) -> integer() >= 0

Returns the number of grapheme clusters in String.

length(String::unicode:chardata()) -> integer() >= 0

Returns the number of grapheme clusters in String.

http://erlang.org/doc/man/string.html#length-1

http://erlang.org/doc/man/string.html#length-1

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