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How do I get the length, in bytes, of the current line in Lua?

vim.api.strlen('foo') doesn't work

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  • Lua has unary "sizeof-like" operator # This is language core.
    – Matt
    Jul 31, 2022 at 3:30

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You can use the vim function col:

vim.fn.col('$')-1

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