counting the number of characters in the filename of all files in a directory?

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I am trying to display the output of ls and also print the number of characters in EVERY file name. This is what I have so far:

#!/bin/sh

for x in `ls`; do 
echo The number of characters in x | wc -m

done

Any help appreciated

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