Placing a text label on center?

Unity Engine
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Is there a quick way to place text by its center instead of by its top left?

If it were a texture I would just subtract 1/2 its width, but for a text label I am having trouble finding a way to predict its width. Different font sizes change the width but I don’t know how a font sized “16” or w/e corresponds to screen pixels.

So how do you predict the width of a text label displaying:

“Hello World, do you know my width?”

when its using X font and Y font size?

EDIT: Wow I really can’t believe no one responded to this for a whole week and 5 bumps. Am I not explaining myself well enough? I am sure someone else has had this problem before.

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bump

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Double bump

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Triple bump

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Multi bump

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Monster Bump

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bump-tastrophe

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Perhaps the combination of links will steer you towards the right solution

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/30067/how-long-is-a-string

characterSize + lineSpacing
http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/TextMesh.html