Get the length or width of strings

Get the length in characters or width of strings, which differ where some characters take up multiple characters worth of space, like emojis.

Usage

str_length(strings)

str_width(strings)

Arguments

strings

A character vector, where each element of the vector is a character string.

Value

A numeric vector the same length as string.

str_length(): The number of characters in a string.

str_width(): The amount of space the string will take up when printed with a fixed-width font, such as in the console.

See also

Base nchar() which these functions are built with.

Examples

str_length(c("Hello", "everyone"))
#> [1] 5 8

str_length("😊")
#> [1] 1
str_width("😊")
#> [1] 2