Counting Characters in a cell

[Guest]

Well the title pretty much explains it,
I need to be able to count how many characters there are in a cell
so if the following are three different cells

11111 would return 5
1111 would return 4
111111 would return 6

 

[Dave Peterson]

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Well the title pretty much explains it,
I need to be able to count how many characters there are in a cell
so if the following are three different cells

11111 would return 5
1111 would return 4
111111 would return 6