Checking the length of a string in sapscript

Is there a way to check the length of a string in sapscript?
What I want to do is, if the length of two strings is greater than a certain ammount, truncate the string.
But I don't know if is possible inside the sapscript

Never mind, I did it with a perform instead

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>
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