Name

OCTET_LENGTH( )

Synopsis

OCTET_LENGTH(string)

This function returns the number of bytes contained in the given string. Note that there are eight bits to a byte and there is one byte to a letter. An octet is a term used to describe the components of a IP address. This function is an alias of LENGTH( ).

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