Nicolas,

As I believe someone else has already advised, it is LENC() and not CLEN().

Cheers,
Jim N

>>>I need to return the size of a character string in bytes. Is there any function that can help me accomplish this task. I've tried _STRLEN() API but i can't seem to get the correct syntax.
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>>>Any help is greatly appreciated!
>>>Thank in advance
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>>Nicholas,
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>>LEN() will tell you length of a string in bytes and CLEN() will tell you the length in characters (handling double byte character sets properly).
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>I've checked the online help a visual foxpro tell me that LEN() returns the number of characters but CLEN() doesn't exist.
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>Thanks