Golang Example- 3 ways to check Length of a String output

In this blog post, You will learn three programs.

• The first program is the Length or count of characters/bytes of a String
• The second program is Length of runes in a String
• Third Program is to find the length of string using a pointer

String is a sequence of characters that contains one or more words. In Golang, String is read-only of arbitrary bytes. Its length is the number of characters in a string.

For example, the Given input string is “Cloudhadoop”, and the length of the string is 11.

Example program - Length or count of Character/bytes of a String

In this program, the Inbuilt `len() function is used to calculate the length of the character of a string.

Here is a syntax of len function

func len(input Type) int

This function accepts input parameters of type like an array, slice, strings, channel.

package main  
import (  
 "fmt"  
)  
  
func main() {  
 str1 := "This is test program"  
 fmt.Println(len(str1)) //11  
}  

Output:

20

Example program Length of runes in a String

Package unicode/utf8 provides RuneCountInString function to find out runes count of a string.

Here is a RuneCountInString function Syntax

func RuneCountInString(s string) (n int)

Here is a program to check the runes count of a string using the RuneCountInString function.

package main  
  
import (  
 "fmt"  
 "unicode/utf8"  
)  
  
func main() {  
 str := "Cloudhadoop"  
 fmt.Println(utf8.RuneCountInString(str)) // 11  
  
}  

output:

11 

Example program 3 lengths of a string using pointer

Address of variable finds using ampersand(&) symbol.

length of String using pointer or address can be found using *(star) followed by variable.

Here is an example checking string pointer length

package main  
  
import (  
 "fmt"  
)  
  
func main() {  
 str := "cloudhadoop"  
 address := &str  
 fmt.Println(len(*address))  
  
}  

Output:

11