Checking how many characters are in a text

Hello there, For my matchmaking system I’d like to know how to detect how many characters are in a text for example:

Hello

That will be a text with 5 characters in it and I’d like to know how to detect how much characters there is.

Any help is appreciated, Thanks!

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Length operator #

local text = "Karozza" --7 characters
print(#text) -- Prints 7 

Not sure if that’s what you wanted

So if I were to do:

local TextBoxText = TextBox.Text

if #TextBoxText == 20 then
    print("20 characters")
end

It would detect 20 characters?, I never knew you could use the Length operator on a string

That would be correct if there are 20 characters in the text provided. If there are less or more than 20 it will not print

Remember that spaces count as well

local text = "Karozza And Yes"
print(#text) -- Prints 15
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oh lol i didnt even know that this was possible, i always used string.len(text). thanks for sharing!

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