<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!--*********************************************************** * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. * ***********************************************************--> <helpdocument version="1.0"> <meta> <topic id="textsbasicshared03120402xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Len Function [Runtime]</title> <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120402.xhp</filename> </topic> <history> <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> <lastedited date="2004-08-24T13:09:25">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> </history> </meta> <body> <section id="len"> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154136"><bookmark_value>Len function</bookmark_value> </bookmark> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154136" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120402.xhp" name="Len Function [Runtime]">Len Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147576" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the number of characters in a string.</paragraph> </section> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159177" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Len (Text As String)</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148473" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143270" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Long</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147531" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147265" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> <emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression.</paragraph> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153360" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="9">Example:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150792" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Sub ExampleLen</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151211" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Dim sText as String</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154125" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">sText = "Las Vegas"</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156214" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">MsgBox Len(sText) REM Returns 9</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3125864" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">End Sub</paragraph> </body> </helpdocument>