May 7, 2009 #1 testeng Technical User Joined Apr 5, 2001 Messages 32 Location US Is there any advantages (perfomance / efficiency) gains to using a fixed length string?
May 8, 2009 #2 dilettante MIS Joined Apr 13, 2001 Messages 4,475 Location US Probably nothing of any real signifincance considering the extra overhead involved in padding/trimming trailing spaces. Their main use today is probably in UDTs, for record I/O or API calls. Upvote 0 Downvote
Probably nothing of any real signifincance considering the extra overhead involved in padding/trimming trailing spaces. Their main use today is probably in UDTs, for record I/O or API calls.