characters are in that string so for halpert it’s seven characters for flenderson it’s ten characters and we’re able to see a length and so again there are a lot of different use cases for this uh the social security number was one another one is phone numbers right if you look at the length of the phone numbers and there’s ones that are like 12 numbers long you know those might not be ones that are accurate and you need to go look at them and see if you want to include them in your results or your output so that is how length is done let’s move right over Left/Right to the left and right um i i may be going a little fast but uh you know i’m keeping it i’m keeping it live i’m keeping this on our feet so let’s keep going left and right are kind of like sub strings if you’ve taken the the sql tutorial series that i’ve done uh substrings are where you can choose a certain part of the text string and you can extract data from that um and usually have to reference a certain number so a certain amount of characters