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--- function:LENGTH [2015/07/13 06:46]
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+++ function:LENGTH [2023/09/20 02:31] (current)
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-The LENGTH() function returns the length of text that the action is operating on in actions like [the Substring action](action:Substring_of_Variable_or_Clipboard).
+====== LENGTH Function ======
+The LENGTH() function returns the length of text that the action is operating on.
+The LENGTH() function is a special context sensitive function that only works in a few actions, like the [[action:Substring_of_Variable_or_Clipboard|Substring]] or [[action:Apply_Style_to_Clipboard|Apply Style]] actions, returning the length of the processed text (so, for example, you could have the text size be dependent on the length of the text).
+LENGTH() will not give you the character count of a simple string – for that you can use the [[CHARACTERS]] function or the Character Count [[action:Filter]].
+===== See Also =====
+=== Functions ===
+* [[function:CHARACTERS|CHARACTERS]]
+* [[:Functions|See all Functions]]
+=== Actions ===
+* [[action:Substring_of_Variable_or_Clipboard|Substring]]
+* [[action:Apply_Style_to_Clipboard|Apply Style]]
+* [[:Actions|See all Actions]]

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