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LEN
Syntax
LEN(str.expr)
Description
The UniBasic LEN function returns the length of character expression str.expr. LEN
supports multibyte languages.
With null value handling on, the null value has a length of one byte.
Examples
In the following example, the program segment displays 14, the length of the string
NAME:
NAME = "Arthur Fiedler"
PRINT LEN(NAME)
The following figure illustrates a string that indicates below each “character” the
number of bytes required to store that character. The string contains eight bytes.
Therefore, LEN would return 8 for this string.
Number
of bytes
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