On Mar 31, 2014, at 8:08 AM, Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm angling toward using a very wide char(1) array. Is the one-byte overhead for char(n<126) applied to each element or to the array?
Each element, it's a variable length type.
There's probably a better way of storing your data, but if you end up really needing a one-byte long character type, there is "char" (with the quotes).
Cheers,
Steve