LEN

Archived content. No warranty is made as to technical accuracy. Content may contain URLs that were valid when originally published, but now link to sites or pages that no longer exist.

LEN returns the number of characters in a text string.

Syntax

LEN ( text )

Text is the text whose length you want to find. Spaces count as characters.

Example

Col1	Formula	Description (Result)
Phoenix, AZ	=LEN([Col1])	Length of the string (11)
	=LEN([Col1])	Length of the string (0)
AOne	=LEN([Col1])	Length of the string, which includes 5 spaces (8)