How to figure out the length of the result of `fmt::format` without running it?

While answering this question about printing a 2D array of strings into a table, I realized:

I haven’t found a better way to determine the length of the result of a fmt::format call that to actually format into a string and check the length of that string.

Is that by design, or is there a more efficient way to go about that? I don’t know the internals of fmtlib all too well, but I imagine, the length of the result is known before memory allocation happens. I’d especially like to avoid the memory allocation.

>Solution :

Straight from the API documentation:

template<typename …T>
auto fmt::formatted_size(format_string<T…> fmt, T&&… args) -> size_t

Returns the number of chars in the output of format(fmt, args…).