Forum Post: longcharacter data type

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ujj1

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Sometimes I wish that there was only one character datatype and not two datatypes; char for strings less than 32k and longchar for strings larger than 32k. What if we entertain the idea of getting rid of longchar and making character handle large strings. What would that look like? Or maybe we should boycott character variables for all new development. Is there a performance issue of simply defining long chars instead of chars even though they will only hold a few bytes?

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