为Xcode 6 beta 4更新，更改方法utf16count-->utf16count

 var test1: String = "Scott"
 var length =  test1.utf16Count

Or

 var test1: String = "Scott"
 var length = test1.lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding(NSUTF16StringEncoding)

在Swift 4.1和Xcode 9.4.1中

在Objective c和Swift中获取长度是不同的。在Obj-c中我们使用长度属性，但在Swift中我们使用计数属性

例子：

//In Swift
let stringLenght = "This is my String"
print(stringLenght.count)

//In Objective c
NSString * stringLenght = @"This is my String";
NSLog(@"%lu", stringLenght.length);

使用Xcode 6.4、Swift 1.2和iOS 8.4：

    //: Playground - noun: a place where people can play

    import UIKit

    var str = "  He\u{2606}  "
    count(str) // 7

    let length = count(str.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet())) as Int // 3
    println(length == 3) // true

雨燕1.1

extension String {
    var length: Int { return countElements(self) }  // 
}

雨燕1.2

extension String {
    var length: Int { return count(self)         }  // 
}

斯威夫特2.0

extension String {
    var length: Int { return characters.count    }  // 
}

雨燕4.2

extension String {
    var length: Int { return self.count }           
}

let str = "Hello"
let count = str.length    // returns 5 (Int)

var str = "Hello, playground"
var newString = str as NSString    

countElements(str)

这将统计正则Swift字符串中的字符

countElements((newString as String))    

这将统计NSString中的字符

test1.characters.count

将获取字符串中字母/数字等的数量。

ex:

test1 = "StackOverflow"

print(test1.characters.count)

（打印“13”）