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  3. July 2012

Re: DDS variable length field

Joel

I think that if you leave off the option allocated-length value, it will give it what you want - the documentation says that if you don't include the (n) for allocated amount that the data is stored in the varying part of the file - I've seen this in SST - it is a separate data space, and only when the allocated length is 0 does all the data go there.

HTH
Vern

On 7/20/2012 11:42 AM, Stone, Joel wrote:
I would like to describe a variable length field with a minimum of zero length.

Is this possible?

Why must I have min length 1??

TEXTDATA 1000 COLHDG('MEMO TEXT')
VARLEN(1)



Editor gives error "Keyword value beginning '0' not allowed."





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