This attribute holds the minimum length which a character variable must have in order to be able to store the longest value currently present (at any row) in a specified column of the supplied Table. The required column name should be placed inside the parentheses in the attribute name. If the named column holds vector values, then the attribute value is the length of the longest element of the vector value.

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• If the named column holds numerical values, the length returned is the length of the largest string that would be generated if the column values were accessed as strings.