Simple way to calculate pixel width of a string?

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Apollonius
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I'm trying to calculate the width of a string with default font. I was thinking of assigning a width value for each characters but I have a question:

How to calculate how many of a character you have in a string? Like how many "e" or what not.

I tried doing this:
Local length:Int = Len text:string
width = length*9

hmm or maybe there's an easier way?