How to Get the Length of a String in Swift

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to find the length of a given string in Swift language.

Using the count property

To get the length of a string, we can use the built-in count property in Swift.

The count property returns the total number of characters in a string, it is read-only.

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

 // the string has 4 characters
let name = "King"

print(name.count)

Output:

4

Swift version: 5.1