# Character Count

**URL:** <https://community.parabola.io/t/character-count/770>\
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**Tags:** Building-Flows\
**Created:** [July 7, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/character-count/770 "2020-07-07T18:43:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_Joles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/max_joles/32/108_2.png) [@Max\_Joles](https://community.parabola.io/u/Max_Joles)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/character-count/770/1 "2020-07-07T18:43:19Z")

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Is there a character count option or any sort of math operations on strings? I’m hoping to count the number of characters in a field

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**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/brian/32/11_2.png) [@brian](https://community.parabola.io/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/character-count/770/2 "2020-07-07T18:59:14Z")

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Not quite. The best you can do is use the Text Extract with a character offset to know if there were characters after a certain amount