>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

Sorry, my mistake it is LEN() and LENC() (not CLEN())

LENC() was introduced with VFP 3.0b and it deals with the double byte character set where each character is two bytes of data, LEN() would tell you the number of bytes in the string while LENC() tells you the number of characters.

PS, sorry about the empty reply, my mouse finger got too quick.