0001411: There is no way to indicate a max length for string variables

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0001411	10000-008: Data Access		public	2010-11-12 12:10	2011-03-17 20:46

Reporter	Matthias Damm	Assigned To	Karl Deiretsbacher
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	won't fix

Summary	0001411: There is no way to indicate a max length for string variables
Description	Most PLCs have fixed length string variables. I have not found a way to indicate this fixed length to clients.
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Karl Deiretsbacher 2011-03-16 13:36 developer ~0002421	Strings are not simply bytes but a sequence of Unicode characters and the number of characters may be significantly lower than the number of Bytes. A MaxStringLength that specifies the number of bytes is not useful. If it is used for determining how many characters can be stored in the variable, the Client has to know in which format the Server stores characters (8-Bit, 16-Bit, 32-Bit Unicode) and has to perform different calculations depending on the format.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-11-12 12:10	Matthias Damm	New Issue
2011-02-14 06:23	Randy Armstrong	Status	new => assigned
2011-02-14 06:23	Randy Armstrong	Assigned To	=> Karl Deiretsbacher
2011-03-16 13:36	Karl Deiretsbacher	Status	assigned => resolved
2011-03-16 13:36	Karl Deiretsbacher	Resolution	open => won't fix
2011-03-16 13:36	Karl Deiretsbacher	Note Added: 0002421
2011-03-17 20:46	Randy Armstrong	Relationship added	related to 0001547
2011-03-17 20:46	Randy Armstrong	Status	resolved => closed