| Description: | Returns the length of the character argument without counting trailing blank characters. | ||
| Class: | Elemental function; Generic | ||
| Arguments: | STRING | Must be of type character. | |
| KIND (opt) | Must be a scalar integer initialization expression. | ||
| Results: | The result
is a scalar of type integer. If KIND is present, the
kind parameter of the result is that specified by KIND; otherwise, the kind
parameter of the result is that of default integer. If the processor
cannot represent the result value in the kind of the result, the result
is undefined.
The result has a value equal to the number of characters remaining after any trailing blanks in STRING are removed. If the argument contains only blank characters, the result is zero. | ||
Examples
In these examples, the symbol - represents a blank.
LEN_TRIM ('---C--D---') has the value 7.
LEN_TRIM ('-----') has the value 0.