Name
font:TextWidth -- get text width
Synopsis
t = font:TextWidth(text, len)
Function
font:TextWidth() gets the total width of the text, the number of characters, and the number of words.

This method returns a table that has the following fields initialized:

NumChars:
The number of characters.

NumWords:
The number of words (obsolete). Use NumSpace instead (see below).

Width:
The total width of the text.

NumSpace:
The number of words.

In case of an error, all table elements will be set to 0.

Inputs
text
the text to get width
len
the byte length of the text
Results
t
table containing calculation results

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