How to get length of a string in Ruby

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to get the length of a string in Ruby.

The length of a string means the total number of characters present in a given string.

Using length method

To get the length of a string, we can use the built-in length method in Ruby.

The length method returns the number of characters in a string in integer format.

Here is an example, that gets the length of a name string:

name = "prince"
length = name.length

puts length

Output:

6

Similarly, we can also use the size method in ruby.

name = "prince"
length = name.size

puts length