string-length - print string lengths — fish-shell 3.1.2 documentation

# string-length - print string lengths

## Synopsis

    string length [(-q | --quiet)] [STRING...]

## Description

`string length` reports the length of each string argument in characters. Exit status: 0 if at least one non-empty STRING was given, or 1 otherwise.

## Examples

    >_ string length 'hello, world'
    12

    >_ set str foo
    >_ string length -q $str; echo $status
    0
    # Equivalent to test -n $str