stringi (version 1.8.4)

stri_numbytes: Count the Number of Bytes

Description

Counts the number of bytes needed to store each string in the computer's memory.

Usage

stri_numbytes(str)

Value

Returns an integer vector of the same length as str.

Arguments

str

character vector or an object coercible to

Author

Marek Gagolewski and other contributors

Details

Often, this is not the function you would normally use in your string processing activities. See stri_length instead.

For 8-bit encoded strings, this is the same as stri_length. For UTF-8 strings, the returned values may be greater than the number of code points, as UTF-8 is not a fixed-byte encoding: one code point may be encoded by 1-4 bytes (according to the current Unicode standard).

Missing values are handled properly.

The strings do not need to be re-encoded to perform this operation.

The returned values do not include the trailing NUL bytes, which are used internally to mark the end of string data (in C).

See Also

The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/

Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18637/jss.v103.i02")

Other length: %s$%(), stri_isempty(), stri_length(), stri_pad_both(), stri_sprintf(), stri_width()

Examples

stri_numbytes(letters)
stri_numbytes(c('abc', '123', '\u0105\u0104'))

if (FALSE) {
# this used to fail on Windows, where there were no native support
# for 4-bytes Unicode characters; see, however, stri_unescape_unicode():
stri_numbytes('\U001F600') # compare stri_length('\U001F600')
}