awk length of text in column code example

Example: awk length of text in column

# Basic syntax:
awk '{ print length($column) }' input_file

# Example usage:
# Say your input_file contains the following fields:
12	this
578	is
42	a
23	string

# Running:
awk '{ print length($2) }' input_file

# Would return:
4
2
1
6