Syntax 

Len(S$)


-or-


Len(usertypevar)


Group 

String 


Description 

Return the number of characters in S$.

Note: A similar function, LenB, returns the number of bytes in the string. For a usertypevar, LenB returns the number of bytes of memory occupied by the variable's data.


Parameters

Description

S$ 

Return the number of chars in this string value. If this value is Null then Null is returned.

usertypevar 

Return the number of bytes required to store this user type structure variable. If the user type has any dynamic String or Variant elements the length returned may not be as big as the actual number of bytes required.


See Also 

InStr( ), InStrRev( ), Left$( ), Mid$( ), Replace$( ), Right$( )


Example

Sub Main

    Debug.Print Len("Hello") ' 5

End Sub