std::basic_string::size, std::basic_string::length

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Strings library

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basic_string

basic_string_view (C++17)

char_traits

std::basic_string

Member functions basic_string::basic_string basic_string::operator= basic_string::assign basic_string::get_allocator Element access basic_string::at basic_string::operator[] basic_string::front (C++11) basic_string::back (C++11) basic_string::data basic_string::c_str basic_string::operator basic_string_view (C++17) Iterators basic_string::beginbasic_string::cbegin (C++11) basic_string::endbasic_string::cend (C++11) basic_string::rbeginbasic_string::crbegin (C++11) basic_string::rendbasic_string::crend (C++11) Capacity basic_string::empty basic_string::sizebasic_string::length basic_string::max_size basic_string::reserve basic_string::capacity basic_string::shrink_to_fit (C++11)

Operations basic_string::clear basic_string::insert basic_string::erase basic_string::push_back basic_string::pop_back (C++11) basic_string::append basic_string::operator+= basic_string::compare basic_string::starts_with (C++20) basic_string::ends_with (C++20) basic_string::replace basic_string::substr basic_string::copy basic_string::resize basic_string::swap Search basic_string::find basic_string::rfind basic_string::find_first_of basic_string::find_first_not_of basic_string::find_last_of basic_string::find_last_not_of Constants basic_string::npos

Non-member functions operator+ operator==operator!=operator<operator>operator<=operator>= swap(std::basic_string) operator<<operator>> getline stoistolstoll (C++11)(C++11)(C++11) stoulstoull (C++11)(C++11) stofstodstold (C++11)(C++11)(C++11) to_string (C++11) to_wstring (C++11) operator""s (C++14) Helper classes hash<std::string>hash<std::wstring>hash<std::u32string>hash<std::u16string> (C++11)(C++11)(C++11)(C++11) hash<std::pmr::string>hash<std::pmr::wstring>hash<std::pmr::u32string>hash<std::pmr::u16string> (C++20)(C++20)(C++20)(C++20) Deduction guides(C++17)

size_type size() const;		(until C++11)
size_type size() const noexcept;		(since C++11)
size_type length() const;		(until C++11)
size_type length() const noexcept;		(since C++11)

Returns the number of CharT elements in the string, i.e. std::distance(begin(), end()).

Parameters

(none)

Return value

The number of CharT elements in the string.

Complexity

Unspecified	(until C++11)
Constant	(since C++11)

Notes

For std::string, the elements are bytes (objects of type char), which are not the same as characters if a multibyte encoding such as UTF-8 is used.

Example

Run this code

#include <cassert>
#include <iterator>
#include <string>

int main()
{
    std::string s("Exemplar");
    assert(8 == s.size());
    assert(s.size() == s.length());
    assert(s.size() == static_cast<std::string::size_type>(
        std::distance(s.begin(), s.end())));

    std::u32string a(U""); // 8 code points
    assert(8 == a.size()); // 8 code units in UTF-32

    std::u16string b(u""); // 8 code points
    assert(8 == b.size()); // 8 code units in UTF-16

    std::string c(u8""); // 8 code points
    assert(24 == c.size()); // 24 code units in UTF-8
}

See also

empty	checks whether the string is empty (public member function)
max_size	returns the maximum number of characters (public member function)