How can you determine the number of characters in a variable?

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How can you determine the number of characters in a variable?..

Answer / abhishek bajpai

Use
%Len(%Trim(Variable)) to get the exact number of characters
in a variable

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How can you determine the number of characters in a variable?..

Answer / mahalakshmi

%CHECKR() with factor1 as blanks

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How can you determine the number of characters in a variable?..

Answer / kcsyam

use Built-in-function %LEN()

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