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Report Builder
User’s Guide
LENGTH
Returns the length of a character string.
SYNTAX
string
A character expression (a constant, field name, or expression that results in a character value).
Report Builder counts any trailing spaces. The length of a null string is zero.
EXAMPLETo produce a list of customers (Name) and phone numbers (Phone) with a dot leader (...) between them, use LENGTH with FILL as follows:
To make the data align to the left and right margins, you must used a fixed-pitch font.
Sample report:
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