# Description
Title; fixes#9208.
# User-Facing Changes
`input` now can specify a certain number of characters to read.
# Tests + Formatting
No CI tests; can't find a way to implement.
```
~/CodingProjects/nushell> let user_input = (input --numchar 2)
~/CodingProjects/nushell> echo $user_input
te
```
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