RE: Max length of a VARYING field

If IBM changes the max length of variable length fields (and DS, and regular
fields) to 16MB, then I suspect that they will increase the hidden length
attribute to 10I0 or 10U0. Which would mean "4" would be the, then, correct
magic number.

Off hand, I can't think of another way to do this, but I would suggest that IBM
may (should?) introduce along with that field-length increase, a new built-in
that lets you get the %maxlen() of a variable length field.

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Subject: RE: Max length of a VARYING field

Tommy Holden wrote on 11/05/2007 09:45:54:

Then use a constant... VarFldLenBytes c Const(2) or
some other thingy...then 2 isn't a "magic number" it's pretty self-
documenting what you're doing...

Thanks Tommy - that's what I was thinking about doing. I guess I just
wanted to make sure that there wasn't a %maxlen() or something that I had
somehow missed seeing.



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