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Subject: Re: PGN question for Steven J. Edwards

Author: Steven J. Edwards

Date: 00:59:25 06/09/98

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On June 08, 1998 at 21:18:25, Danniel Corbit wrote:

>On June 08, 1998 at 03:39:26, Steven J. Edwards wrote:
>[snip]
>>More details about import/export are in the upcoming spec.
>Will this new specification have formal limits for sizes of fields?  I
>want to create a very general database for handling PGN, but I am
>frustrated trying to find out how large the objects can become without
>violation of the standard.  And I don't want to make every field a blob.

The maximum length of a string (after escape character processing) is
255 characters.  Similarly, the maximum length of a symbol (such as a
PGN tag name) is also 255 characters.

-- Steven (sje@mv.mv.com)

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