Count the Number of Characters
Usage
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
strwidth
giving width of strings for plotting;
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