fish-shell/doc_src/cmds/string-length.rst
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.. _cmd-string-length:
string-length - print string lengths
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Synopsis
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.. synopsis::
string length [-q | --quiet] [-V | --visible] [STRING ...]
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Description
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``string length`` reports the length of each string argument in characters. Exit status: 0 if at least one non-empty *STRING* was given, or 1 otherwise.
With **-V** or **--visible**, it uses the visible width of the arguments. That means it will discount escape sequences fish knows about, account for $fish_emoji_width and $fish_ambiguous_width. It will also count each line (separated by ``\n``) on its own, and with a carriage return (``\r``) count only the widest stretch on a line. The intent is to measure the number of columns the *STRING* would occupy in the current terminal.
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Examples
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>_ string length 'hello, world'
12
>_ set str foo
>_ string length -q $str; echo $status
0
# Equivalent to test -n "$str"
>_ string length --visible (set_color red)foobar
# the set_color is discounted, so this is the width of "foobar"
6
>_ string length --visible 🐟🐟🐟🐟
# depending on $fish_emoji_width, this is either 4 or 8
# in new terminals it should be
8
>_ string length --visible abcdef\r123
# this displays as "123def", so the width is 6
6
>_ string length --visible a\nbc
# counts "a" and "bc" as separate lines, so it prints width for each
1
2
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