LEN/LENB Function

The LEN/LENB function is one of the text and data functions. Is used to analyse the specified string and return the number of characters it contains. The LEN function is intended for languages that use the single-byte character set (SBCS), while LENB - for languages that use the double-byte character set (DBCS) like Japanese, Chinese, Korean etc.

Syntax

LEN(text)

LENB(text)

The LEN/LENB function has the following argument:

Argument	Description
text	The text whose length you want to find.

Notes

How to apply the LEN/LENB function.

Examples

The figure below displays the result returned by the LEN function.