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The MAXBYTES function counts the number of bytes in the longest line of a multiline text expression. The result returned by MAXBYTES has the same dimensions as the specified expression.
Return Value
INTEGER
Syntax
MAXBYTES(text-expression)
Parameters
The TEXT
expression whose bytes for each line are to be counted.
Examples
Finding the Length of the Longest Line Using Bytes
You would like to know the length of the longest line in a text variable called mytext
. The following example shows the value of the variable and the result returned by MAXBYTES.
The statement
SHOW mytext
produces the following output.
This is a multiline text variable. The longest line is this one in the middle. The third line is short.
The statement
SHOW MAXBYTES(mytext)
produces the following output.
43