ThinBASIC Core Language > BuiltIn Functions > String functions

Description

Return the length of a string expression in number of chars.

Syntax

n = LENW(string_expression)

Returns

Number

Parameters

Name	Type	Optional	Meaning
String_Expression	String	No	Any string expression

Remarks

Useful when dealing with UTF-8 strings where length of the string in bytes is not always the same of the length of the string in number of characters.

For example the following string "漢字はユニコード. Hi from thinBASIC"

is 43 bytes but 27 characters.

Restrictions