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Experiment:

Original table:

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Field calculator expression applied to TXTfield:

“”

Add numeric field:

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Field calculator expression applied to numField:

len( [TXTfield])

Result:

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Note:

  1. arcpy.da.searchCursor also reports 1 character long string in TXTfield
  2. ArcView 3 reports zero length string

Question:

What is going on?

I am using ArcGIS 10.2

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  • It's best to leave your question here, even though it is a duplicate. That way it is another signpost to the answer. Since it took me a while to find the duplicate your question will provide more keywords to make that easier next time. – PolyGeo Mar 30 '16 at 21:47

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