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#  Overview
A `string` like in every other programming language is used to store text. A `string` is always written in single quotation marks (``''``) or double quotation marks(``""``). Examples are: ``'Hello world'``, ``"Hello World",`` etc.

These texts can also be referred to as characters. For instance, the first character in the string ``"Hello world"`` is ``"H"``, the sixth character is a space ``" "`` and the last character of the string is ``d``.

>To check for the number of characters present in a string, we use the **`nchar()`** function of R.
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## Syntax
```
nchar(string)
```
## Parameter(s)
* **`string`**: Where the parameter value is the `string` variable in which you wish to find the number of characters present in it.

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## Example code
let's create a `string` and calculate the number of characters present in that `string`.


# creating a string
mystring <- "Hello World!"

# using the nchar() function 
nchar(mystring)

From the output of the code above, we can see that using the ``nchar()`` function, the string ``"Hello World"`` contains just ``12`` characters.

How to find the numbers of characters in a string in R

Use the `nchar()` function in R to count the number of characters in a string. Example: `nchar("Hello World")` returns 12.