length.md

Length

The number of chars which comprise a String can be accessed by using .length().¹

~void main() {
String fruit = "strawberry";
int numberOfChars = fruit.length();

// strawberry is 10 characters long
System.out.println(
    fruit + " is " + numberOfChars + " characters long"
);
~}

Footnotes

1. This is different from the number of unicode codepoints. ↩