How many letters in a letter?

[LindaG]

Just searched for two hours. Found too much on this one but nothing exactly saying what I need. We need to count how many letters (plus count spaces) in a letter. The body is one field and we need to know how many 'characters' it contains.

There is a word count but no letter count. What a strange thing for filemaker to forget. I tried Count but it produces a 1 when it should produce a 46. filemaker help is ... well ... isn't helpful.

I have the feeling I'll kick my own butt when someone points out the obvious but I'm out of energy.

Linda

[BobWeaver]

Hello again.

You want the Length() function. It counts the number of characters in a field.

[LindaG]

Oh good grief Bob. Butt-kickin' will certainly being happening on a Friday night now. Length. How did I miss that bugger after reading entire help and search forums for two hours!!