How to find the length of a string in Golang?

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Today, I’m going to show how do you check the length of a string in Golang, in golang to find string length we have to first convert the string to a char array then we can easily get the length of an array using len() method.

The len() method expects an array, it will count an array of elements and return the number of elements.

Let’s start today’s tutorial How to find the length of a string in Golang?

Here, we are going to do

1. Create a string variable
2. Convert string to an array of char
3. Use len() method to get length

package main
 
func main() {
    // create string variable
    var str = "ab£"

    // convert string to array of char
    // Use `len()` method to get length
    var length = len([]rune(str))
    println("Length of the string is : ", length)
    println("Output of len(str) is : ", len(str))
}

When you run the above program it will print the length of the array and the length of the string.

Try it yourself

A string contains characters as Unicode points, not bytes. len(string) returns the number of bytes in this string, but not the number of characters. Therefore we are getting an invalid count of string.

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