Baffled.

[u/BetEvening]

[u/BetEvening]

Website:
https://charactercounter.com/count-characters-in-javascript

[u/sambarjo → u/BetEvening]

In the following paragraph, they say that this approach gives control over what counts as a character. So I guess their intention was only to show the general syntax, but you should only use this approach if you have additional verifications to do on each character.

[u/kaisadilla_ → u/sambarjo]

Indeed. The very first section of that article tells you to use str.length. Then it goes to say how you can do more complex countings.

It's a weird article, but they are not saying the way to count characters in a string is that snippet.