Hello there,
We are validating a text entered by the user to be under 4000 characters to avoid Oracle errors. We are using the function "len" to do that.
However, the function is not taking into account special characters (but Oracle does). Is there a way to count the real length of a string including special characters such as return line?
For example01234567890123456789
are 21 characters including one return line in Oracle.
Many thanks!
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Can you give an example of the function you tried? In my experience, len() does consider special characters. For example, the result of this expression is 21:
len("0123456789 0123456789")