std::basic_string::size

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Member functions basic_string::basic_string basic_string::operator= basic_string::assign basic_string::get_allocator Element access basic_string::at basic_string::operator[] basic_string::front (C++11) basic_string::back (C++11) basic_string::data basic_string::c_str Iterators basic_string::begin basic_string::cbegin (C++11) basic_string::end basic_string::cend (C++11) basic_string::rbegin basic_string::crbegin (C++11) basic_string::rend basic_string::crend (C++11) Capacity basic_string::empty basic_string::size basic_string::length basic_string::max_size basic_string::reserve basic_string::capacity basic_string::shrink_to_fit (C++11) Operations basic_string::clear basic_string::insert basic_string::erase basic_string::push_back basic_string::pop_back (C++11) basic_string::append basic_string::operator+= basic_string::compare basic_string::replace basic_string::substr basic_string::copy basic_string::resize basic_string::swap Search basic_string::find basic_string::rfind basic_string::find_first_of basic_string::find_first_not_of basic_string::find_last_of basic_string::find_last_not_of Constants basic_string::npos Non-member functions getline stoi stol stoll (C++11) (C++11) (C++11) stoul stoull (C++11) (C++11) stof stod stold (C++11) (C++11) (C++11) to_string (C++11) to_wstring (C++11)

size_type size() const;

Returns the number of characters in the string, i.e. std::distance(begin(), end()). It is the same as length().

Contents 1 Parameters 2 Return value 3 Complexity 4 See also

[edit] Parameters

(none)

[edit] Return value

the number of characters in the string

[edit] Complexity

Constant

[edit] See also

empty	checks whether the string is empty (public member function)
length	returns the length of the string (public member function)
max_size	returns the maximum number of characters (public member function)