[Rd] length() and nchar()

[Byron Ellis]

THAT'S how you find the length of a string?!!  *smacks forehead* I 
ended up doing a regex for /$^/. Man, I feel stupid.

On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 01:59 PM, Wolfram Fischer wrote:

> I would propose to add "
>     See also:
>         `nchar' for counting the number of character in
> 		character vectors.
> "
> to the helpfile of length(),
> because it is rather difficult
> to find nchar() if one has only
> search terms as "length", "len",
> "strlen" in mind.
>
> Sincerly
>
> Wolfram Fischer
>
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