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HELLO EVREYONE,
I WANT TO CALCULATE THE LENGTH OF THE NUMERIC FIELD AND I TRIED PCKOUT FUNCTION BUT I COULD'NT DO IT.
FOR EXAMPLE
LET THE FIELD BE CUSTOMERID AND IT HAS DATA 12345612
WITH THE FUNCTION I WANT TO RETURN THE VALUE OF CUSTOMERID AS 8.
THANKS
MADDY
 
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The function ARGLEN will return the length of a character string. Even though the Customer ID field contains numbers it can be viewed as a character string.

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