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string-length

Returns the number of characters in a string, including trailing blanks.

string-length ( string )

The following table describes the argument for this function:

Argument	Description
string	String datatype. The string you want to evaluate.

Integer.

NULL if a value passed to the function is NULL.

The following expression returns the length of the customer name:

string-length ( CUSTOMER_NAME )

The following table contains example arguments and return values: