Is there a BASIC command to count the number of characters in a string?

Question

I couldn't find any. Is there one? Google didn't help me, because it's case insensitive and thinks I am looking for "basic" commands.

Answer 1

Use LEN(expression), where the expression can be any string or string variable

Example:

X = LEN("Jack Daniels") >>> X contains 12

or

strX = "Jack"
X = LEN(strX) >>> X contains 4

Answer 2

All Basic dialects I know of have a len function that returns the length of a string expression. Examples:

• Apple // Integer basic
• Visual Basic 6
• Visual Basic .NET
• http://www.fact-index.com/b/ba/basic_programming_language.html

In Visual Basic .NET you could also use the .Length property of the string, but that property behaves differently for the Nothing value: Len() function vs String.Length property; which to choose?

Answer 3

Use the Len

Dim YourString as String

Dim CharCount as Integer

YourString ="MyString"

CharCount  = LEN(YourString)

msgbox "There are " & CharCount & " Characters in mystring"

Answer 4

If you mean that you want to count the number of a specific character in a , you can do something like that :

Dim YourString as String

Dim CharCount as Integer


Dim MyChr as Char
Dim chrl as Char

YourString ="MyString"
MyChr ="A"


CharCount  = 0

For i = 1 To Len(YourString)


chrl = Mid(YourString, i, 1)
if UCase(chrl) = UCase(MyChr) then
CharCount  = CharCount  + 1
end if

next i


msgbox "There are " & CharCount & " " & MyChr & " Characters in mystring"

Answer 5

Yes, look at this example:

' Initializes variable. 
Dim TestString As String = "Hello World" 
' Returns 11. 
Dim TestLen As Integer = Len(TestString)

So TestString = Hello World, and the TestLen = 11 because Hello World has 11 characters in it.

Answer 6

conta = strlen(name_of_variable)

strlen gives the number of character of variables given an integer