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>That explanation might leave someone thinking that there is no difference in how Char and VarChar are stored in the DBF.
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David, does this "values stored in the field are variable length values and they are not padded to the length of the field" sound the same as Char field?
>If I am interpreting what I see in the DBF correctly, the VarChar will have a Hex value as the last character (holding the length of the actual field value) -- if the value length is less than the field length. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I would say the last byte contains the length of the value if it is shorter than the max length. You can find the full description in documentation.
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