NET/MASTER Network Control Language (NCL) Reference Manual

WORDLENGTH
Built-in Functions
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WORDLENGTH The WORDLENGTH built-in function returns the length of a specified word in a
string.
WORDLENGTH( string , n )
string
specifies the string to be processed.
n
specifies the word position in string of the word whose length you want. n
must be a positive whole number. If n specifies a word position beyond the end of
the string, 0 (zero) is returned.
Consideration
See also WORD and WORDINDEX. The WORD built-in function extracts a word from
a string; the WORDINDEX built-in function returns the position of the first character
of a word in a specified string.
Example
In the following example, the length of the third word in the string “this is a message”
is required. The character length of a is 1, so “1” is returned:
&A = this is a message
&B = 3
&RESULT = WORDLENGTH(&A,&B)