Method: PlainText.count_char

Defined in:
lib/plain_text.rb

.count_char(instr, *rest, lbs_style: , linehead_style: , lastsps_style: , lb_out: , **k) ⇒ Integer

Count the number of characters

See #clean_text! for the optional parameters. The defaults of a few of the optional parameters are different from it, such as the default for lb_out is “n” (newline, so that a line-break is 1 byte in size). It is so that this method is more optimized for East-Asian (CJK) characters, given this method is most useful for CJK Strings, whereas, for European alphabets, counting the number of words, rather than characters as in this method, would be more standard.

Parameters:

  • instr (String) —

    String for which the number of chars is counted

Returns:

  • (Integer) 


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# File 'lib/plain_text.rb', line 91

def self.count_char(instr, *rest,
      lbs_style:      DEF_METHOD_OPTS[:count_char][:lbs_style],
      linehead_style: DEF_METHOD_OPTS[:count_char][:linehead_style],
      lastsps_style:  DEF_METHOD_OPTS[:count_char][:lastsps_style],
      lb_out:         DEF_METHOD_OPTS[:count_char][:lb_out],
      **k
    )
  clean_text(instr, *rest, lbs_style: lbs_style, linehead_style: linehead_style, lastsps_style: lastsps_style, lb_out: lb_out, **k).size
end