Golang : Find the length of big.Int variable example

There is a chance that you will ever need to get the length of big.Int variable and below is a simple example on how to count the length of a big.Int variable.

 package main

 import (
  "fmt"
  "math/big"
 )

 func main() {

  // base 10
  bigInteger := new(big.Int)
  bigInteger.SetString("100000000000000000L", 10) //18

  fmt.Println("Value : ", bigInteger)
  fmt.Println("Length : ", len(bigInteger.Text(10)))
 }

Output:

Value : 100000000000000000

Length : 18

Reference:

https://www.socketloop.com/tutorials/golang-convert-string-or-integer-to-big-int-type