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Character limit in Vstring and VWstring data type

Avishek1
8 - Asteroid
‎03-17-2021 07:24 AM

Dear Expert,

 

Can you please share the number character support by data type Vstring and VWstring.

 

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messi007
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora
‎03-17-2021 07:32 AM

@Avishek1,

 

Please see below: 

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the link for details: https://help.alteryx.com/current/designer/data-types 

 

Regards,

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danilang
19 - Altair
19 - Altair
‎03-17-2021 08:07 AM

Hi @Avishek1 

 

According to this post the total length of a V_string field can be up 2GB(2147483648) in size.   VW_string take up 2 bytes per character, so their max length will be half that.

 

Dan

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