What is the maximum length of a string variable

[jim mcnamara]

The reason for the dynamic string length is that it uses a long to remember the length of the string. VB creates what is called a string descriptor for each dynamic string. Looks like this
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Descriptor type as 2bytes
Address of first byte of string : as long
length of the string: as long

Fixed is like this:
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Descriptor type as 2bytes
Address of first byte of string : as long
length of the string: as 2 byte integer
Max length of string: AS 2 BYTE INTEGER



Fixed len strings do this