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diff --git a/lib/stdlib/src/io_lib.erl b/lib/stdlib/src/io_lib.erl
index 8223a52873..2b5a374cf2 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/src/io_lib.erl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/src/io_lib.erl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
%%
%% %CopyrightBegin%
%%
-%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1996-2018. All Rights Reserved.
+%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1996-2019. All Rights Reserved.
%%
%% Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
%% you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@
-export([limit_term/2]).
+-export([chars_length/1]).
+
-export_type([chars/0, latin1_string/0, continuation/0,
fread_error/0, fread_item/0, format_spec/0, chars_limit/0]).
@@ -1131,3 +1133,17 @@ test_limit_map_assoc(K, V, D) ->
test_limit(V, D - 1).
test_limit_bitstring(_, _) -> ok.
+
+-spec chars_length(chars()) -> non_neg_integer().
+%% Optimized for deep lists S such that deep_latin1_char_list(S) is
+%% true. No binaries allowed! It is assumed that $\r is never followed
+%% by $\n if S is an iolist() (string:length() assigns such a
+%% sub-sequence length 1).
+chars_length(S) ->
+ try
+ %% true = deep_latin1_char_list(S),
+ iolist_size(S)
+ catch
+ _:_ ->
+ string:length(S)
+ end.