Generating a vector of the number of items in each list item

Question

I have a list containing 98 items. But each item contains 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 character strings.

I know how to get the length of the list and in fact someone has asked the question before and got voted down for presumably asking such an easy question.

But I want a vector that is 98 elements long with each element being an integer from 0 to 5 telling me how many character strings there are in each list item. I was expecting the following to work but it did not.

lapply(name.of.list,length())

From my question you will see that I do not really know the nomeclature of lists and items. Feel free to straighten me out.

Answer 1

The code below accepts a list and returns a vector of lengths:

x = c("vectors", "matrices", "arrays", "factors", "dataframes", "formulas", 
      "shingles", "datesandtimes", "connections", "lists")
xl = list(x)
fnx = function(xl){length(unlist(strsplit(x, "")))}
lv = sapply(x, fnx)