Re: DDS variable length field

["Carel Teijgeler" <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx>]

A wild guess: the compiler/system has to allocate at least 1 byte fixed
storage (within the record format) for the field.

Regards,
Carrel Teijgeler

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On 20-7-2012 at 16:42 Stone, Joel wrote:

> 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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