CHARACTER_LENGTH() Function in MySQL

CHARACTER_LENGTH() : This function in MySQL helps to find the length of given string. The length is measured in form of characters. Moreover, CHARACTER_LENGTH() is also the synonym of CHAR_LENGTH() function. Syntax :

CHARACTER_LENGTH(string)

Parameter : The function accepts only one parameter as follows.

• string - A string whose length to be found.

Returns : It will return the length of given string. Example-1 : Using CHARACTER_LENGTH() function to calculate the length of a given string as follows.

SELECT CHARACTER_LENGTH("GeeksforGeeks") AS LenOfStr

Output :

LenOfStr
13

Example-2 : Using CHARACTER_LENGTH() function to calculate the length of a given string as follows.

SELECT CHARACTER_LENGTH("//  GeeksforGeeks  //") 
AS LenOfStr

Output :

LenOfStr
21

Example-3 : Using CHARACTER_LENGTH() function to calculate the length of every column in given table as follows. Table — Cricketers_details :

PLAYER_ID	PLAYER_NAME	RUNS_SCORED
11	Yuvraj Singh	144000
41	Dinesh Kartik	100000
05	Virat Kohli	500000
99	Chris Gale	410000
07	M.S Dhoni	700000

Now, used the following command given below for calculating character length.

SELECT CHARACTER_LENGTH(PLAYER_NAME) AS LenOfCol  
FROM Cricketers_details;

Output :

LenOfCol
12
13
11
10
9

Example-4 : Using CHARACTER_LENGTH() function to calculate the length of a given string as follows.

SELECT CHARACTER_LENGTH("//  @#$$#@  //") 
AS LenOfStr

Output :

LenOfStr
14