String Character Length: Difference between revisions

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This is not the place to talk about __len__, and there is no need to link to the byte length from each language section
Handling encoded strings
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'''Interpreter:''' [[Python]] 2.4
 
len() returns the length =of len("Thea unicode string or plain ascii string. To get the length of thisencoded string, willyou behave determined")to decode it first:
<pre>
>>> len('ascii')
5
>>> len(u'\u05d0') # the letter Alef as unicode literal
1
>>> len('\xd7\x90'.decode('utf-8')) # Same encoded as utf-8 string
1
</pre>
 
==[[Ruby]]==