Guys, have a technical limit on Cli

[fmoore0001]

Guys, have a technical limit on Clipper to inquire about. I know field names cannot be longer than ten characters but how large can they for ordinary variables. I thought the limit was 10, too, and the rest ignored.

Also, does anyone know if this limit was different for Summer '87, 5.00, 5.01 and 5.02.

Frank

 

[kazdee]

You are correct. A variable name can be any length, but Clipper only recognizes the first ten characters. To the best of my memory, this applies to Summer '87 thru 5.3.

 

[Frandalf]

On the other hand, the preprocessor symbols, created with #define can be longer and more than 10 characters are significant. I don't remember the limit but you can check that out by trying.