>sorry a quicky question here.
>I have been persuing help and can't seem to find reference for this
>how do i check the character length within a field length
>
>lname is a field 30 characters
>the name 'smith' is 5 characters
>i am trying to get 5 as the response.
>

>? len(Lname)  &&& give me the length of the field not the contents.
>

len(trim(lname))

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