Find length of string in R

Question

I want to find out the number of characters in String without splitting it in R

Also what about unicode strings? How to find the length (in bytes) and the number of characters(symbols) in a unicode string.

Answer 1

You can try nchar

> nchar("fast")
[1] 4
> set.seed(10)
> string_example <- paste(sample(LETTERS, 10), collapse = "")
> string_example
[1] "XALQCGHUKZ"
> nchar(string_example)
[1] 10