>>>Given this, client.name, what would be the simpliest way to get the field lenght of "name" field.
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>>Is
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>>FSIZE(cFieldName [, nWorkArea | cTableAlias] | cFileName)
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>>that you are talking about?
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>That is ok.

The same result with LEN( client.name). The only advantage is that LEN() function doesn't depend on SET COMPATIBLE.

Vlad