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ABAP_BITFUNC - xstrlen
One length function is currently available for unnamed byte-like arguments.

ABAP_SYNTAX
... xstrlen( arg ) ...
The built-in function xstrlen returns the number of bytes in arg. The argument arg is a byte-like functional operand position. The return value has the type i.



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NON_V5_HINTS
The function described here is one of the functions that can also be used in the obsolete extended functional operand positions if its argument is a single data object.
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ABAP_EXAMPLE_VX5
A six-character text in the code page UTF-16 is represented by 12 bytes.
ABEXA 00999
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