title: oracle apex - how to validate name length with a value
body: <p>I'm tring to validate whether the name length is met with the required value or not.</p>
  
  <p>I made a code but it works in a bad way
  I'm trying to see the entered name whether is less then 3 or not and return a Boolean to print the message or not.
  in some cases the code prevent any entered date and the other is saving the data even if it's less then 3 .</p>
  
  <p>my code is </p>
  
  <pre><code>if length(':P11_first_name') &lt; 3 then
  return true;
  else
  return false;
  end if;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>what I need to do to solve this problem.</p>