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Text.length

length

Group: Metadata
Aliases: count

Documentation

Computes the number of characters in the text.

Examples

Getting the length of the string "건반(Korean)".

       "건반(Korean)".length

Remarks

What is a Character?

A character is defined as an Extended Grapheme Cluster, see Unicode Standard Annex 29. This is the smallest unit that still has semantic meaning in most text-processing applications.