R: sf_nchar

sf_nchar {stringfish} | R Documentation

## sf_nchar

### Description

Counts the number of characters in a character vector

### Usage

    sf_nchar(x, type = "chars")

### Arguments

`x` | A character vector
`type` | The type of counting to perform ("chars" or "bytes", default: "chars")

### Details

Returns the number of characters per string. The type of counting only matters for UTF-8 strings, where a character can be represented by multiple bytes.

### Value

An integer vector of the number of characters

### See Also

nchar

### Examples

    x <- "fa\xE7ile"
    Encoding(x) <- "latin1"
    x <- sf_iconv(x, "latin1", "UTF-8")

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