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Re: Restructuring program to cope with modern database layouts

On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Charles,

Am 15.05.2025 um 17:40 schrieb Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>:

VARCHAR fields in Db2 (and all RDBMs as far as I know) are not null
terminated.

Ah! The I confused this somehow with handling of strings with record I/O
in C on IBM i. This needs conversion from <=> to C-strings.


Yep, null termination of strings is a C/C++ thing..

Db2, ILE RPG, ILE COBOL and everything else I can think of, on and off the
IBM i, store a length. :)

Charles

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