isCOBOL Evolve : Appendices : Intrinsic Functions : LENGTH
LENGTH
The LENGTH function returns the size of a variable. When used on national items, it returns the number of characters, not the number of bytes; use BYTE-LENGTH in order to know the number of bytes.
Syntax 1
function length (arg-1)
Syntax 2
$length (arg-1)
Arguments
• arg-1 must be a data-item.
Result
The function returns the size of arg-1.
Examples
Example - Display the size in characters of a national data item.
working-storage section.
77 unicode-var pic n(10).
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procedure division.
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display function length(unicode-var).