Chapter 5: General Objects and Methods

size()

Calculates the number of characters of data in a string.

size();

Integer. Returns the number of characters in the string (0 if empty), if successful, and a negative number, if failed.

Pointer to object	Object
`int count;`	`int count;`
`count = ps->size();`	`count = mystring.size();`

string mystr;

int num;

mystr = “abcdefg”;

num = mystr.size();

//num is now 7, the number of characters in mystr