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  3. July 2012

Re: DDS variable length field

Hi Joel,

Just to make sure you aren't misunderstanding: The number after VARLEN is _not_ the minimum length of the data in the field. Rather, it's the amount of the VARLEN field that's stored in the record buffer (as opposed to storing it in an auxiliary space)

You can still store a zero-length value in that column, even if you have VARLEN(1000).

Make sense?



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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