DDS variable length field -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: DDS variable length field
From: "Stone, Joel" <Joel.Stone@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:42:41 +0000
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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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