title: wezterm.column_width tags:

  • utility
  • string

wezterm.column_width(string)

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Given a string parameter, returns the number of columns that that text occupies in the terminal, which is useful together with format-tab-title and update-right-status to compute/layout tabs and status information.

This is different from string.len which returns the number of bytes that comprise the string.