What is different between variable length and fixed length?
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Answer / saravanan
variable lenth means record should be in different format
(lenth).but the first 4 bytes only taken as a record lenth.
fixed lenth means we have declaring a record lenth.
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Answer / udaya bharathi
fixed length file contains same record length for all
records.but in variable length files length of the record
varies ,it can be useful in such cases we are not sure
about the length of the output file to be generated
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