CountCharsOf

Type

operator

Summary

Counts the number of chars in Target.

Syntax

the number of chars in <Target>

Description

note

The number of chars returns the number of codeunits of the target string. It does not perform any grapheme boundary analysis.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
Target		An expression which evaluates to a string.

Examples

variable tVar as Number
variable tSource as String
put "hello" into tString
put the number of chars in tString into tVar

variable tString as String
put the empty string into tString	
repeat tVar times
	put "a" after tString
end repeat

// tString contains "aaaaa"