str length for strings

Signature

> str length {flags} ...rest

Flags

• --grapheme-clusters, -g: count length using grapheme clusters (all visible chars have length 1)
• --utf-8-bytes, -b: count length using UTF-8 bytes (default; all non-ASCII chars have length 2+)

Parameters

• ...rest: For a data structure input, replace strings at the given cell paths with their length

Input/output types:

Examples

Return the lengths of a string

>'hello'|str length
5

Count length using grapheme clusters

>'🇯🇵ほげ ふが ぴよ'|str length-g
9

Return the lengths of multiple strings

> ['hi''there'] |str length
╭───┬───╮
│0│2│
│1│5│
╰───┴───╯