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length property of a String object contains the length of the string, in UTF-16 code units. length is a read-only data property of string instances.

描述

This property returns the number of code units in the string. UTF-16 , the string format used by JavaScript, uses a single 16-bit code unit to represent the most common characters, but needs to use two code units for less commonly-used characters, so it's possible for the value returned by length to not match the actual number of characters in the string.

ECMAScript 2016 (ed. 7) established a maximum length of 2^53 - 1 elements. Previously, no maximum length was specified. In Firefox, strings have a maximum length of 2**30 - 2 (~1GB). In versions prior to Firefox 65, the maximum length was 2**28 - 1 (~256MB).

For an empty string, length is 0.

The static property String.length is unrelated to the length of strings, it's the arity of the String function (loosely, the number of formal parameters it has), which is 1.

Unicode

Since `length` counts code units instead of characters, if you want to get the number of characters you need something like this:

function getCharacterLength (str) {
  // The string iterator that is used here iterates over characters,
  //  not mere code units
  return [...str].length;
}
console.log(getCharacterLength('A\uD87E\uDC04Z')); // 3
// While not recommended, you could add this to each string as follows:
Object.defineProperty(String.prototype, 'charLength', {
  get () {
    return getCharacterLength(this);
  }
});
console.log('A\uD87E\uDC04Z'.charLength); // 3
					

范例

基本用法

let x = 'Mozilla';
let empty = '';
console.log(x + ' is ' + x.length + ' code units long');
/* "Mozilla is 7 code units long" */
console.log('The empty string has a length of ' + empty.length);
// expected output: "The empty string has a length of 0"
					

赋值长度

let myString = "bluebells";
// Attempting to assign a value to a string's .length property has no observable effect.
myString.length = 4;
console.log(myString);
// expected output: "bluebells"
console.log(myString.length);
// expected output: 9
					

规范

规范
ECMAScript (ECMA-262)

浏览器兼容性

The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.

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	Desktop						Mobile						Server
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	Android webview	Chrome for Android	Firefox for Android	Opera for Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	Node.js
length	Chrome 1	Edge 12	Firefox 1	IE 3	Opera 3	Safari 1	WebView Android 1	Chrome Android 18	Firefox Android 4	Opera Android 10.1	Safari iOS 1	Samsung Internet Android 1.0	nodejs 0.1.100

图例

完整支持

完整支持

另请参阅

• JavaScript String.length 和国际化 Web 应用程序

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• 最后修改： Jul 15, 2020

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1. 标准内置对象
2. String
3. 特性
   1. String 长度
4. 方法
   1. String.fromCharCode()
   2. String.fromCodePoint()
   3. String.prototype.anchor()
   4. String.prototype.big()
   5. String.prototype.blink()
   6. String.prototype.bold()
   7. String.prototype.charAt()
   8. String.prototype.charCodeAt()
   9. String.prototype.codePointAt()
   10. String.prototype.concat()
   11. String.prototype.endsWith()
   12. String.prototype.fixed()
   13. String.prototype.fontcolor()
   14. String.prototype.fontsize()
   15. String.prototype.includes()
   16. String.prototype.indexOf()
   17. String.prototype.italics()
   18. String.prototype.lastIndexOf()
   19. String.prototype.link()
   20. String.prototype.localeCompare()
   21. String.prototype.match()
   22. String.prototype.matchAll()
   23. String.prototype.normalize()
   24. String.prototype.padEnd()
   25. String.prototype.padStart()
   26. String.prototype.repeat()
   27. String.prototype.replace()
   28. String.prototype.replaceAll()
   29. String.prototype.search()
   30. String.prototype.slice()
   31. String.prototype.small()
   32. String.prototype.split()
   33. String.prototype.startsWith()
   34. String.prototype.strike()
   35. String.prototype.sub()
   36. String.prototype.substr()
   37. String.prototype.substring()
   38. String.prototype.sup()
   39. String.prototype.toLocaleLowerCase()
   40. String.prototype.toLocaleUpperCase()
   41. String.prototype.toLowerCase()
   42. String.prototype.toSource()
   43. String.prototype.toString()
   44. String.prototype.toUpperCase()
   45. String.prototype.trim()
   46. String.prototype.trimEnd()
   47. String.prototype.trimStart()
   48. String.prototype.valueOf()
   49. String.prototype[@@iterator]()
   50. String.raw()
5. 继承：
6. Function
7. 特性
   1. Function.arguments
   2. Function.caller
   3. Function.displayName
   4. Function.length
   5. Function.name
8. 方法
   1. Function.prototype.apply()
   2. Function.prototype.bind()
   3. Function.prototype.call()
   4. Function.prototype.toSource()
   5. Function.prototype.toString()
9. Object
10. 特性
    1. Object.prototype.__proto__
    2. Object.prototype.constructor
11. 方法
    1. Object.prototype.__defineGetter__()
    2. Object.prototype.__defineSetter__()
    3. Object.prototype.__lookupGetter__()
    4. Object.prototype.__lookupSetter__()
    5. Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty()
    6. Object.prototype.isPrototypeOf()
    7. Object.prototype.propertyIsEnumerable()
    8. Object.prototype.toLocaleString()
    9. Object.prototype.toSource()
    10. Object.prototype.toString()
    11. Object.prototype.valueOf()
    12. Object.setPrototypeOf()