SAP DESCRIPTIVE FUNCTIONS documentation, setup help and usage info

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Description Functions for Character-Like Arguments
These functions return a numerical result.

charlen , dbmaxlen , numofchar

, strlen - length functions

char_off - length function

find , find_... - search functions

count , count_... - search functions

distance - similarity function

Note
These functions can be used in suitable
operand positions , for example directly as an operand of arithmetic or relational expressions .

SAP DESCRIPTIVE FUNCTIONS documentation, setup help and example usage