Returning lenght of a string

[Raymond Owens]

How do I take a given string and return the number of characters that the string has?

For example, "character" is made up of 9 individual characters. What line of code will examine a string and answer this for me?

[David Newton]

Have you looked at the java.lang.String JavaDocs?

[Raymond Owens]

David Newton wrote:Have you looked at the java.lang.String JavaDocs?

codePointCount?

[David Newton]

Length.

[Raymond Owens]

I had already tried length (apparently in the wrong context) and couldn't make it work. When trying to use the less than operator, I get the error that this cannot be used with java.lang.string, int.

[David Newton]

Without seeing any code it's hard to know where you went wrong. For example, the following works fine:

String s = "foo";
if (s.length() < 5) {
    System.out.println("Hey, it's less than five.");
}