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## Overview
The number of characters that make up a string is the length of that string. We can find this in Swift through the **`count` property**. It returns this number.
## Syntax
```swift
string.count
```
## Return value
The value returned is an integer. It is the number of characters a string has.
## Code example


// create strings
let str1 = "Edpresso"
let str2 = "is"
let str3 = "awesome!"
let str4 = ""

// check length of strings
// and print result
print(str1.count)  // 8
print(str2.count)  // 2
print(str3.count)  // 8
print(str4.count)  // 0

## Explanation
* **Lines 2-5**: We create some strings.
* **Lines 9-12**: We check the length of the strings using the `count` property and print the results.

How to find the length of a string in Swift

Using Swift’s `count` property returns the number of characters in a string as an integer.