Name

string-length — Returns the number of characters in the string.

Synopsis

integer string-length ( strg string );

Description

The string-length() XPATH function returns the number of characters in the string. If the argument is omitted, it defaults to the context node converted to a string, in other words the string-value of the context node.

Parameters

strg

The string whose length must be measured.

Return Types

Integer

Examples

Example24.622.

The following expressions returns 5.

string-length('ABCDE')

See Also

xpf_string()