Yet another newbie sqlforms30 question

I just looked at field in an existing form that I brought up with the load option in sqlforms30. I loaded the form info from a file called "the_screen.inp". I then used image/painter to get into the form. Finally, I checked (with define field) a field in the form to see how it was defined. I found that the field length was set to 12 & the display length was set to 10.

When does it ever make sense to make the field length longer than the display length? And if this sometimes make sense, why does it make sense?

Thanks again,
Martin Meadows Received on Sun Mar 15 1998 - 00:00:00 CST