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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/14/14 4:18 PM, Fairlight wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 03:23:41PM -0400, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
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My docs say that LEN() and EDIT() only take fields, not expressions.
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Right from the in-cabe help file:
LEN (exp) Finds length of field or expression.
I could screenshot it, if you'd like.
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Yeah, that cabe help is incorrect. I don't ever remember len being
able to take a literal expression.<br>
The online manual at fptech does state "
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<font style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; color:#010100; ">Where
"f "is a dummy or real field", </font><font
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">although you can use a long
variable name in the function which can be uncast for length (fp
v. 5.0.14):<br>
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Then: declare origexp(40,*)<br>
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Then: origexp = "testing"<br>
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Then: </font></font><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman';
color:#010100; "><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">declare shortexp<br>
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</font></font>Then: shortexp=""{origexp{""<br>
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Then: msgbox "Length of trimmed origexp = "<len(shortexp)<br>
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This len function here will return "7".<br>
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Bruce<br>
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