length Function in MYSQL

In MySQL, the LENGTH function is used to return the length of a string in bytes. Here's how you can use the LENGTH function with an example:

SELECT LENGTH('Hello World') AS string_length;

In this example, 'Hello World' is a string literal. The LENGTH function is applied to this string, and it returns the length of the string, which is 11 bytes.

The output of this query would be:

string_length

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11

This demonstrates how to use the LENGTH function in MySQL to find the length of a string in bytes. If you want to count the number of characters instead of bytes in MySQL, you should use the CHAR_LENGTH function instead of LENGTH.