textWidth()

Category: Typography

Subcategory: Attributes

Complexity: None

Description

Calculates and returns the width of any character or text string.

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Example

Code:
textSize(28);

char c = 'T';
float cw = textWidth(c);
text(c, 0, 40);
line(cw, 0, cw, 50); 

String s = "Tokyo";
float sw = textWidth(s);
text(s, 0, 85);
line(sw, 50, sw, 100);
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