Kbase 19732: Real Maximum Sizes for Character Variables
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
21/08/2003 |
|
Status: Unverified
GOAL:
How to determine the real maximum CHARACTER variable length.
FIX:
To determine size:
1) Maximum progress ditem (data item) length 32000.
Please note that this is not 2^15, or 32768).
2) Subtract 8 bytes for the ditem header.
3) Subtract one byte for the null terminator.