str length for strings

Output the length of any strings in the pipeline.

Signature

> str length ...rest --grapheme-clusters --utf-8-bytes

Parameters

• ...rest: For a data structure input, replace strings at the given cell paths with their length
• --grapheme-clusters (-g): count length using grapheme clusters (all visible chars have length 1)
• --utf-8-bytes (-b): count length using UTF-8 bytes (default; all non-ASCII chars have length 2+)

Examples

Return the lengths of a string

> 'hello' | str length
5

Count length using grapheme clusters

> '🇯🇵ほげ ふが ぴよ' | str length -g
9

Return the lengths of multiple strings

> ['hi' 'there'] | str length
╭───┬───╮
│ 0 │ 2 │
│ 1 │ 5 │
╰───┴───╯