count_chars
Summary
Returns the length of the input string.
Usage
input|count_chars()
Returns
An integer revealing the string length.
Description
This operator counts and returns the number of characters (all of them, whitespaces included) that make up the input string.
Examples
Example 1
{'Testing 1 2 3'|count_chars()}The following output will be returned: "13".
Example 2
{'Testing'|count_chars()}The following output will be returned: "7".
Contributors
- Balazs Halasy Updated
- Tristan Rivoallan Commenter
- meinhard benn Commenter
Comments (2 historical)
Written by readers of the earlier documentation sites, kept as they were.
Passing the string as an argument
Tristan Rivoallan ·
Passing the string as an argument doesn't work (ie. function returns nothing). Why ?
I doesn't seem like this behavior is the same among all operators.
Re: Passing the string as an argument
Meinhard Benn ·
use count() instead:
{count('hello world')}