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How to find Length of a Text

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Posted - 2005-04-01 : 08:08:23

marri writes "Dear Sir,
I have a problem
Actually in a stored procedure i am manipulating text data type variable .
I want to Know how to Get Length of a Text
ex
Create Proc TEst(
@txtName Text
)
AS
Begin
Set @txtName='MarriSrikanth'
Select @txtName
--Now I want to get Length of @txtName
End"

robvolk
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Posted - 2005-04-01 : 08:09:45

You cannot manipulate text or image datatypes. The DATALENGTH() function can give you the length of the variable's contents though.

madhivanan
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Posted - 2005-04-01 : 08:19:23

Or you can use len() function
Set @txtName='MarriSrikanth'
Select @txtName
Select len(@txtName)

Madhivanan

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Bustaz Kool
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Posted - 2005-04-01 : 11:21:09

Be aware that LEN() does not count any trailing blanks. It's a common Gotcha to avoid.

HTH

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