Hirohito Higashi wrote:
> Hi Bram and list,
>
> I want to get the number of characters.
> strchars() is looks best, but composing characters are counted separately.
> So that I add "skip composing characters flag" to strchars().
>
> strchars({expr} [, {skipcc}]) strchars()
> The result is a Number, which is the number of characters
> String {expr} occupies.
> When {skipcc} is omitted or zero, Composing characters are
> counted separately.
> When {skipcc} set to 1, Composing characters are skipped.
> Also see strlen(), strdisplaywidth() and strwidth().
>
> Of course I know we can get the number of characters below.
>
> :let len = strlen(substitute(str, ".", "x", "g"))
>
> But it is not intuitive :-)
>
> Can you include this patch?
>
> PS
> This patch idea by Ken Takata. and many advice by Ken Takata.
Thanks. I like it, I'll include the patch.
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