Thank you. I found that FSIZE() does the job pretty well too.
>If all you need is the length of a field then look at the afields() function.
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>>Hi,
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>>I am looking for a VFP function/method to return the length of a column/field of a cursor? I tried
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>>LEN(EVALUATE( cCursAlias + ".FLD_NAME"))
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>>But when the value in the field is NULL, LEN() returns NULL. Any other suggestions? TIA.
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