#### 8.2.53.23 string.strlength ¶

Method: `out =` strlength `(obj)` ¶

  String length in characters (actually, UTF-16 code units).

  Gets the length of each string, counted in UTF-16 code units. In most cases, this is the same as the number of characters. The exception is for characters outside the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane, which are represented with UTF-16 surrogate pairs, and thus will count as 2 characters each.

  The reason this method counts UTF-16 code units, instead of Unicode code points (true characters), is for Matlab compatibility.

  This is the string length method you probably want to use, not `strlength_bytes`.

  Returns double array of the same size as obj. Returns NaNs for missing strings.

  See also: string.strlength_bytes