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

 

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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 Iterators basic_string::begin basic_string::cbegin (C++11) basic_string::end basic_string::cend (C++11) basic_string::rbegin basic_string::crbegin (C++11) basic_string::rend basic_string::crend (C++11) Capacity basic_string::empty basic_string::size basic_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::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 stoi stol stoll (C++11) (C++11) (C++11) stoul stoull (C++11) (C++11) stof stod stold (C++11) (C++11) (C++11) to_string (C++11) to_wstring (C++11) Helper classes hash<std::string> hash<std::wstring> hash<std::u32string> hash<std::u16string> (C++11)

 

size_type size() const;
size_type length() const;

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.

Exceptions

(none)	(until C++11)
noexcept specification:   noexcept   (since C++11)	(since C++11)

Complexity

Constant

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.

See also

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