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Once you have a string, you can determine its length using the length method. For example, if codeString has a string assigned to it, you can obtain the length of the string as follows:

  *-- Variable with a string assignment 
  | 
  |           *-- length method 
  v           v 
---------- -------- 
codeString.length() 

Note the contrast between arrays and vectors: to obtain the length of an array, you examine the length instance variable, rather than calling a method; to obtain the length of a vector, you deploy the size method.