You are looking for CHAR_LENGTH()
to get the number of characters in a string.
For multi-byte charsets LENGTH()
will give you the number of bytes the string occupies, while CHAR_LENGTH()
will return the number of characters.
You are looking for CHAR_LENGTH()
to get the number of characters in a string.
For multi-byte charsets LENGTH()
will give you the number of bytes the string occupies, while CHAR_LENGTH()
will return the number of characters.