SAP DESCRIPTIVE FUNCTIONS

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Description Functions for Character-Like Arguments
These functions return a numerical result.

charlen, dbmaxlen, numofchar , strlen - length functions

char_off - length function

find, find_... - search functions

count, count_... - search functions

distance - similarity function

Note
These functions can be used in suitable operand positions, for example directly as an operand of arithmetic or relational expressions.