- represents the width of a value in a case. Valid widths are:
-
- * 0, indicating a numeric value.
-
- * A positive integer between 1 and 32767, indicating the
- size in bytes of a string value.
-
- * -1, indicating that the value at this index in the case
- is not used at all. (This is rarely useful.)
+ represents the width of a value in a case. A width of 0
+ indicates a numeric value, and any positive integer up to
+ MAX_STRING indicate the size in bytes of a string value.