Text Formatting ⇒ getting the length of a string?

[jay1990]

Hi all. I'd just like to know if theres a Latex function that i can use to retrieve the number of characters in a string. Eg:

\begin{document}

\strlen{test}

\end{document}

would print "4" on the page. Does something like that exist?

Cheers.

[localghost]

This is definitely a job for the xstring package. Refer to Section 2.3 (Macros returning a number, p. 9ff) of the manual.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten