I have some experience in Angular4, but I just inherited a piece of code that uses FormControls, and I don\'t know how to work with them. I am setting up a comments textarea th
you can do this.rotationForm.get('comments').value
this will give you the value of the formControl and then you can check on the length.
doing this this.rotationForm.value.comments
will work too BUT NOT for disabled fields, to get the value of the DISABLED fields use the this.rotationForm.get('comments').value