get length of stringt with color syntax

[mathisloevenich]

Strings like:

color_str = "[red]alert[/red]"

do obviously have a length of more than the actual printed length.
It should be possible to get the raw length = 5

I have looked into the docs and feel like rich.text should be able to make the job.

However I did not find explicit documentation for this use case.

[willmcgugan]

That's correct, you can use the Text class.

>>> from rich.text import Text
>>> text = Text.from_markup("[red]alert[/red]")
>>> len(text)
5

[mathisloevenich]

Nice thanks 👍