Characters in material description

Where I can check how many characters are allowed for material description in material master ?

Hi Balaji,
the material master description allow 40 characters.
in MM01 or MM02 you can count them or
take the field name, in se11 check for the fields info and check for data element and its length.
Thx,
MJ

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