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sf_nchar

Source: R/zz_help_files.R
sf_nchar.Rd

Counts the number of characters in a character vector

Usage

sf_nchar(x, type = "chars", nthreads = getOption("stringfish.nthreads", 1L))

Arguments

x

A character vector

type

The type of counting to perform ("chars" or "bytes", default: "chars")

nthreads

Number of threads to use

Value

An integer vector of the number of characters

Details

Returns the number of characters per string. The type of counting only matters for UTF-8 strings, where a character can be represented by multiple bytes.

See also

nchar

Examples

x <- "fa\xE7ile"
Encoding(x) <- "latin1"
x <- sf_iconv(x, "latin1", "UTF-8")