String Intrinsic Functions - CurChars Method

The number of characters in the string

Member of String Intrinsic Functions (PRIM_LIBI.ICommonStringIntrinsics)

Parameters

Name	Type	Data Type	Description
Result	*Result (Optional)	Integer	Returned number of characters

Details

CurChars returns the number of characters in a string.
 
In a single byte environment, CurChars and Cursize will return the same result.
 
In a DBCS environment each character requires two bytes, so although a string may be 8 bytes long, the number of characters will be 4 in ASCII and 3 in ECBDIC. Two bytes will be used by the shift in and shift out bytes.

See also

All Component Classes

Technical Reference

LANSA Version 15, April 2020