Message-ID: <C5497E7D-BE79-4450-9470-FBE083C1223A@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-10-24T15:32:02Z
From: Timothy Bates
Subject: Length of string?
In-Reply-To: <001d01cc925f$90995ca0$b1cc15e0$@charter.net>
Dear Kevin,
# this works
nchar("read the help for length?)
[1] 24
On 24 Oct 2011, at 4:14 PM, Kevin Burton wrote:
> This is very basic but I have not been able to find an answer. Basically I
> want to find the length of a string.
>
> length("Text")
>
> returns 1 so I know that is not right.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kevin
>
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