How to count the number of characters

Dear All,
Can anyone tell me a Function Code or sample code to count the number of charactes in a text.
Regards,
Vijay

hi
use the inbuilt function strlen
Number of characters in arg; blanks at the end of data objects with a fixed length are not counted, although they are counted in type string data objects. If you use a non-Unicode double-byte code, a character that occupies 2 bytes is counted twice.
example
data: v_len type i,
v_str type string value 'gggugik'.
v_len = strlen( v_str ).
write:/ v_len.
Regards,
ravish
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