Documentation/Calc Functions/LENB
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Function name:
LENB
Category:
Text
Summary:
Determines the number of bytes in a supplied text string, including those occupied by space characters.
Syntax:
LENB(Text)
Returns:
Returns a non-negative integer that is the number of bytes occupied by the supplied string.
Arguments:
Text is a text string (in quotation marks), a number, or a reference to a cell containing one of those types, whose length in bytes is to be determined.
Additional details:
General information about byte-position functions
Calc provides several byte-position text functions, which are intended to be used with double-byte character set (DBCS) languages. These functions are FINDB, LEFTB, LENB,MIDB, REPLACEB, RIGHTB, and SEARCHB. Each has an equivalent "ordinary" text function with a similar name but without the final letter "B".
Calc considers double-byte characters to be those characters lying within the following Unicode code blocks:
- Bopomofo Extended (U+31A0 ... U+31BF)
- Bopomofo (U+3100 ... U+312F)
- CJK Compatibility Forms (U+FE30 ... U+FE4F)
- CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement (U+2F800 ... U+2FA1F)
- CJK Compatibility Ideographs (U+F900 ... U+FAFF)
- CJK Compatibility (U+3300 ... U+33FF)
- CJK Radicals Supplement (U+2E80 ... U+2EFF)
- CJK Strokes (U+31C0 ... U+31EF)
- CJK Symbols and Punctuation (U+3000 ... U+303F)
- CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A (U+3400 ... U+4DBF)
- CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B (U+20000 ... U+2A6DF)
- CJK Unified Ideographs (U+4E00 ... U+9FFF)
- Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (U+3200 ... U+32FF)
- Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (U+FF00 ... U+FFEF)
- Hangul Compatibility Jamo (U+3130 ... U+318F)
- Hangul Jamo (U+1100 ... U+11FF)
- Hangul Syllables (U+AC00 ... U+D7AF)
- High Private Use Surrogates (U+DB80 ... U+DBFF)
- High Surrogates (U+D800 ... U+DB7F)
- Hiragana (U+3040 ... U+309F)
- Ideographic Description Characters (U+2FF0 ... U+2FFF)
- Kanbun (U+3190 ... U+319F)
- Kangxi Radicals (U+2F00 ... U+2FDF)
- Katakana (U+30A0 ... U+30FF)
- Low Surrogates (U+DC00 ... U+DFFF)
- Private Use Area (U+E000 ... U+F8FF)
- Yi Radicals (U+A490 ... U+A4CF)
- Yi Syllables (U+A000 ... U+A48F)
See Wikipedia's Unicode block page for more information about these blocks.
In addition, code points U+005C and U+20AC are taken to be double-byte characters if the system language is set to Japanese.
As noted in ODF 1.2, byte positions are implementation-dependent and so reliance upon them reduces interoperability.
Examples:
Formula | Description | Returns |
---|---|---|
=LENB("Good afternoon") | Here the supplied string comprises 14 single-byte characters and so the function returns 14. | 14 |
=LENB("Good afternoon") | Here the supplied string comprises 14 double-byte characters and so the function returns 28. | 28 |
=LENB(D1) where cell D1 contains the number 12345.67. | Here the function returns 8. | 8 |
=LENB("12,345.67") | Here the function returns 9. Note that in this case the number is passed as a string - LEN reports an error if the quotation marks are omitted because the number includes a comma digit group separator. | 9 |
=LENB("") | Here the function returns 0, since the argument is the empty string. | 0 |
Related LibreOffice functions:
ODF standard:
Related (or similar) Excel functions:
LENB