Count ALL characters in a string in Ruby

Question

Is there an equivalent to PHP strlen method in Ruby?

I know about the Ruby String#count method, but this requires a character set to be counted. In my situation, I want to count ALL characters, not just certain characters.

Answer 1

Use the String#size or String#length method. It will work for you.

Returns the length of the str. character str.

Example:

 "abc 12-".size # => 7