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LEN
LEN returns how many characters a piece of text contains. It is the building block for validation, trimming, and parsing formulas.
Excel
=LEN(A2)Google Sheets
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How it works
- 1A2 is the text to measure.
- 2LEN counts every character, spaces included.
- 3Combine with TRIM to ignore stray spaces: =LEN(TRIM(A2)).