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This is a simple question but I'm not very good at research.

I'm trying to find out the number of characters in a String and put it in an int variable. For example:

String word = "Hippo";
int numOfCharacters = (the code that tells me how many characters in the word);

And then use that number later.

Mark Rotteveel
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    Do you mean the `length()` of the string or the amount of non-whitespace characters by only counting _word_ characters? – Glains Aug 21 '20 at 10:54
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    [How to check how many letters are in a string in java?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7252142/how-to-check-how-many-letters-are-in-a-string-in-java/) This question is already answered, you can check here. – Raj Aug 21 '20 at 10:58
  • thanks, as i mentioned i am terrible at searching :) – Aya Noaman Aug 21 '20 at 11:01
  • @Glains all of the characters including spaces – Aya Noaman Aug 21 '20 at 11:01

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The relevant JavaDoc will tell you that length()is the method you're looking for. So word.length(); would return the size of word, which is what you want.

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Use the .length() to get the number of characters in a String

  String word = "Hippo";
  int numOfCharacters = word.length();
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