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Message: [QUOTE="Tony, post: 3716096"] "It's safe (in a manner of speaking). The subtopic is the maximum length of a string." I don't see that as an issue. Everything doesn't have to be scalable to the largest integer size on a machine. Strings to me are of "reasonable" length. For instance. If there is a period marking the end of a sentence, then that is probably one string. A whole file of sentences and paragraphs, is not a string. 32 bits for a length field is just because it's easy to use on a 32-bit platform. If someone needs a billion byte string, well I'm not even going to try to conceive of that because it sounds silly. Tony [/QUOTE]