There are actually 3 fields pertaining to length in your dictionary example
0001 A 0002 01 0003 DESC 0004 0005 0006 0007 T1,35 <-- this is a conversion which tells the report to limit the length to 35 characters or more precisely to show characters 1 through 35 0008 0009 L <-- this justification says to left justify the field. This could be R for right or T for Text which is like L for left except it word wraps at word rather than just length 0010 35 <-- this is the length associated with where it wraps. NOT how much shows, that is determined in this DICT by field 7 So, for example if you wanted it to wrap at 20 characters here would be field 7, 9 and 10 0007 0009 L 0010 20 If you wanted it to word wrap at 20 they would be 0007 0009 T 0010 20 And if you wanted it to only show the first 20 0007 T1,20 0009 L 0010 20 Dan Ell | jBASE Technical Engineer jBASE International, Inc. 813-498-2544 | 866-582-8447 [email protected] | www.jbase.com 1050 Calle Amanecer, Suite A | San Clemente, CA 92673 From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Joyce White Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 9:59 AM To: jBASE <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Need Help Understanding jBASE Field Length Follow-up - still trying to understand the value of even having a dictionary length. Let's say I create a report and make a synonym for a field. My synonym is named "ReportDescrip" and has a length specified in the dictionary as 20. So if I call the synonym from my report, will it then limit the value it returns to the specified dictionary length? Joyce On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 9:36:55 AM UTC-5 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Joyce, Multi-value fundamentals ... There is no relationship between the dictionary and the data in terms of actual field length. The length set in the dictionary was determined by the original implementor based on suitability for display/print purposes. You will often find that there are several synonym items for the same field with different lengths depending on the requirements for a certain report. Mike From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Joyce White Sent: 27 January 2021 14:27 To: jBASE <[email protected]> Subject: Need Help Understanding jBASE Field Length I have a customer asking me about a jBASE field length. My dictionary looks like below, so I thought the length was 35. But I can go into records and type values with lengths much longer than 35 into field 1. In fact, there doesn't seem to BE a limit. What gives? Thanks, Joyce READ ONLY File RM]D , Record '1' Command-> 0001 A 0002 01 0003 DESC 0004 0005 0006 0007 T1,35 0008 0009 L 0010 35 -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. 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