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

In this blog post, You will learn three programs

• First program is Length or count of Character/bytes  of a String
• Second program is  Length of runes in a String 
• Third Program  is to find the length of string using pointer

String is sequence of characters which contains one or more words. In Golang, String is read only of arbitary bytes.String length is number of characters in a string, For example, Given input string is “Cloudhadoop”, The length of the string is 11.

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

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

func len(input Type) int

This function accept input parameter of type like array,slice,strings, channel

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

Output is

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 Syntax of RuneCountInString function

func RuneCountInString(s string) (n int)

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

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

output is

11 

Example program 3 length of a string using pointer

address of variable can be find using & ambersand symbole

lenght 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 is

11