🔤 Character Counter

Count characters, letters, digits, and spaces in text.

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What is a Character Counter?

The Character Counter breaks down any piece of text into four measurements: total characters, letters, digits, and spaces. It's built for situations where you need more than just a word count — fitting a bio into a 150-character Instagram limit, checking a WhatsApp Business template against a character cap, validating a product code format, or checking how many digits and letters are mixed into a string like a PAN or vehicle registration number.

How It Works

The tool measures your text against four simple pattern checks: the total length of the string, how many characters match a letter (a–z or A–Z), how many match a digit (0–9), and how many are whitespace (spaces, tabs, or line breaks). Anything that isn't a letter, digit, or space — punctuation, emoji, currency symbols, and so on — is included in the total count but isn't broken out into its own category.

Total Characters = full text length
Letters = count of [a-z, A-Z]
Digits = count of [0-9]
Spaces = count of whitespace characters

Worked Example

Type: "UPI payments crossed 131 billion transactions in FY24!"

  • Total Characters: 54
  • Letters: 41
  • Digits: 5 (the "131" and "24" digits)
  • Spaces: 7

The remaining 1 character — the exclamation mark — is neither a letter, digit, nor space, which is why the four figures above (41 + 5 + 7 = 53) don't add up to the full 54-character total.

How to Use This Tool

  1. Paste or type your text into the Your Text box.
  2. Click Calculate.
  3. Read the total character, letter, digit, and space counts shown below.

Things to Know

💡 Tip: When checking a text field's limit (e.g., a 160-character SMS segment), always count using total characters, not just letters — spaces, punctuation, and digits all count toward most platform limits, and forgetting them is the most common reason a message unexpectedly splits into two SMS segments.

Need a word and sentence count instead of a character breakdown? Try the Word Counter. Working out a percentage-based limit? Use the Percentage Calculator.

📅 Last reviewed: July 2026 · Formulas verified against RBI/SEBI/IT Dept guidelines.