#' The length of a string (in characters).
#'
#' @param string input character vector
#' @return numeric vector giving number of characters in each element of the
#'   character vector.  Missing strings have missing length.
#' @seealso \code{\link{nchar}} which this function wraps
#' @export
#' @examples
#' str_length(letters)
#' str_length(c("i", "like", "programming", NA))