MySQL CHAR_LENGTH() Functions – String Functions

MySQL CHAR_LENGTH() Functions: Syntax

MySQL CHAR_LENGTH() Functions: Description

CHAR_LENGTH() functions returns the length of a string (in characters). A multibyte character counts as a single character. This means that for a string containing five 2-byte characters, LENGTH() returns 10, whereas CHAR_LENGTH() returns 5.  See in the examples.

MySQL CHAR_LENGTH() Functions: Parameter

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Name, Required /Optional, Value Type, Description
string , Required, String , The input string to count the length.
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MySQL CHAR_LENGTH() Functions: Output

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Returns,
string , returns a string consisting of the characters given by the code values of input integers.
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MySQL CHAR_LENGTH() Functions: Available from

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Version, MySQL 4.0
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Related articles : CHAR() , LENGTH().

MySQL CHAR_LENGTH() Functions: Example 1

mysql> SELECT LENGTH(‘tutorialmines’);
+————————-+
| LENGTH(‘tutorialmines’) |
+————————-+
| 13 |
+————————-+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT length(‘§’), char_length(‘§’);
+————–+——————-+
| length(‘§’) | char_length(‘§’) |
+————–+——————-+
| 2 | 1 |
+————–+——————-+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT length(‘€’), char_length(‘€’)
-> ;
+—————+——————–+
| length(‘€’) | char_length(‘€’) |
+—————+——————–+
| 3 | 1 |
+—————+——————–+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Below is the mysql terminal screen for above code :

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