Re: Max length of a VARYING field -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Max length of a VARYING field
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:33:46 -0400
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Holden Tommy wrote:

This begs the question....why did varying fields not start with a 4 byte
integer? Seems that a little "forward-thinking" would have been in
order?? No offense...i love the enhancements made to the RPG language
over the past few years...but seems like it would have been the logical
choice...

RPG inherited the definition of varying length fields from the database, and since the database has a maximum record length of 32767, I guess the 2-byte prefix made sense.

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