Get Length of String in PowerShell

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Using String’s Length property
Using Measure-Object with Character parameter

Using String’s Length property

Use string’s length property to get length of String in PowerShell e.g. "Hello World".Length. System.String‘s Length property returns number of Characters present in the String.

$blog_name = "Java2blog"

# get length of String using length property

$blog_name.Length

Output

Here, we declared a string variable blog_Name which contains string Java2blog.

We have used Length property on the String variable to get length of String in PowerShell.

Length property returns number of characters present in the String.

You can directly use Length property even without creating variable.

"Java2blog".Length

Output

You can use Length property with if statement to do comparison based on length of String.

For example:
Let’s say you want to check if length of String is greater than 8 or not.

You can use following code:

$blog_name = "Java2blog"

# Check if blog_name is greater than 8 Characters

if ($blog_name.length -gt 8) {

Write-Output "Length of String <code>"Java2blog</code>" is more than 8 Characters"

}

Output

Length of String "Java2blog" is more than 8 Characters

We used -gt operator to check if String is greater than 8 or not.

Using Measure-Object with Character parameter

Use Measure-Object cmdlet with Character parameter to get length of String in PowerShell.

$blog_name = "Java2blog"

# get length of String using Measure-Object property

$blog_name|Measure-Object -Character

Output

Lines Words Characters Property

----- ----- ---------- --------

Here, we declared a string variable blogName which contains string "Java2blog" and piped it with Measure-Object.

Measure-Object cmdlet provides the numeric properties of objects, and the characters, words, and lines in string objects, such as files of text.

We passed -Character as parameter to Measure-Object cmdlet to get total number of characters present in String.

You can also pass -word as parameter in case you want to count total number of words in String.

$str = "Hello from Java2blog"

# get length of String using Measure-Object property

$str|Measure-Object -Word -Character

Output

Lines Words Characters Property

----- ----- ---------- --------

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