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Count The Number of Characters

Syntax

nchar(x)

Description

nchar takes a character vector as an argument and returns a vector whose elements contain the number of characters in the corresponding element of x. It only accepts character vectors as arguments if you want to operate on other objects passing them through deparse first will be required.

See Also

paste, substr, strsplit

Examples

x<-c("asfef","qwerty","yuiop[","b","stuff.blah.yech") nchar(x) # 5 6 6 1 15 nchar(deparse(mean)) # 23 1 16 45 11 64 2 17 50 43 2 17 1