Comment by zwnow
Comment by zwnow a day ago
I actually want string length. Just give me the length of a word. My human brain wants a human way to think about problems. While programming I never think about bytes.
Comment by zwnow a day ago
I actually want string length. Just give me the length of a word. My human brain wants a human way to think about problems. While programming I never think about bytes.
If the validation rules don't specify (either explicitly or implicitly) what the "length" in the rule corresponds to (if it concerns a natural-language field, it's probably grapheme clusters), then either you should fix the rule, or you care only about checking the box of "I checked the validation rules", in which case it's a people problem and not a technology problem.
The whole point is that string length doesn’t necessarily give you the “length” of a “word”, and both of those terms are not well enough defined.