vrl 0.32.0

Vector Remap Language
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{
  "anchor": "strlen",
  "name": "strlen",
  "category": "Enumerate",
  "description": "Returns the number of UTF-8 characters in `value`. This differs from\n`length` which counts the number of bytes of a string.\n\n**Note**: This is the count of [Unicode scalar values](https://www.unicode.org/glossary/#unicode_scalar_value)\nwhich can sometimes differ from [Unicode code points](https://www.unicode.org/glossary/#code_point).",
  "arguments": [
    {
      "name": "value",
      "description": "The string.",
      "required": true,
      "type": [
        "string"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "return": {
    "types": [
      "integer"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "title": "Count Unicode scalar values",
      "source": "strlen(\"ñandú\")",
      "return": 5
    }
  ],
  "pure": true
}