I did too. I spend 15 min going through the VFP help but could not find it. Then, as soon as I posted the UT message, I thought about the fsize(). I think they call it "information overload" <g>.
>Yep, I forgot about that.
>
>>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.
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I am looking for a VFP function/method to return the length of a column/field of a cursor? I tried
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>LEN(EVALUATE( cCursAlias + ".FLD_NAME"))
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>But when the value in the field is NULL, LEN() returns NULL. Any other suggestions? TIA.
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