Re: DDS variable length field -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: DDS variable length field
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:48:49 -0400
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On 2012/7/20 12:42 PM, Stone, Joel wrote:

I would like to describe a variable length field with a minimum of zero length.

Just remove the parameter from the VARLEN keyword. It defaults to zero.

TEXTDATA 1000 COLHDG('MEMO TEXT')
VARLEN

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Re: DDS variable length field , Charles Wilt

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