Strlen - Amazon QuickSight
SyntaxArgumentsReturn typeExample
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Strlen

strlen returns the number of characters in a string, including spaces.

Syntax

strlen(expression)

Arguments

expression

An expression can be the name of a field that uses the string data type like address1, a literal value like 'Unknown', or another function like substring(field_name,0,5).

Return type

Integer

Example

The following example returns the length of the specified string.

strlen('1421 Main Street')

The following value is returned.

16