Re: SQL length of a value -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: SQL length of a value
From: "Jeffrey Day" <Jeff.Day@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:37:53 -0400
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length(trim(fieldName))

On 10/1/2008 at 11:34 AM, in message <9C6454025F3F26408EFC77B4949494E397B32F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Reger, Bill" <BillR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is there a way in iSeries SQL to determine the length of a value? (Not to be confused with the length of the field itself.) For example, if I have a 10 byte character field that contains the value "ABCD" I would like back an answer of 4, not 10.

Bill

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