1*cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*cdf0e10cSrcweir 3*cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*cdf0e10cSrcweir<!--*********************************************************************** 5*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 6*cdf0e10cSrcweir * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 8*cdf0e10cSrcweir * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 10*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 12*cdf0e10cSrcweir * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 14*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15*cdf0e10cSrcweir * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16*cdf0e10cSrcweir * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 18*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19*cdf0e10cSrcweir * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20*cdf0e10cSrcweir * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21*cdf0e10cSrcweir * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22*cdf0e10cSrcweir * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 24*cdf0e10cSrcweir * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25*cdf0e10cSrcweir * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26*cdf0e10cSrcweir * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27*cdf0e10cSrcweir * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 29*cdf0e10cSrcweir ************************************************************************--> 30*cdf0e10cSrcweir 31*cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32*cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 33*cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsbasicshared03120402xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34*cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Len Function [Runtime]</title> 35*cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120402.xhp</filename> 36*cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 37*cdf0e10cSrcweir<history> 38*cdf0e10cSrcweir<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39*cdf0e10cSrcweir<lastedited date="2004-08-24T13:09:25">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40*cdf0e10cSrcweir</history> 41*cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 42*cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 43*cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="len"> 44*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154136"><bookmark_value>Len function</bookmark_value> 45*cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 46*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 47*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147576" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the number of characters in a string, or the number of bytes that are required to store a variable.</paragraph> 48*cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 49*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159177" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 50*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Len (Text As String)</paragraph> 51*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148473" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 52*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143270" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Long</paragraph> 53*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147531" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 54*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147265" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 55*cdf0e10cSrcweir<emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression or a variable of another type.</paragraph> 56*cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 57*cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 58*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153360" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="9">Example:</paragraph> 59*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150792" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Sub ExampleLen</paragraph> 60*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151211" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Dim sText as String</paragraph> 61*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154125" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">sText = "Las Vegas"</paragraph> 62*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156214" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">MsgBox Len(sText) REM Returns 9</paragraph> 63*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3125864" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">End Sub</paragraph> 64*cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 65*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 66