How to declare variable containing character limiting to 1000 bytes in vb6

Question

How to declare variable containing character limiting to 1000 bytes in vb6

Answer 1

Here is the syntax for a fixed-length string of 500 characters, which is 1000 bytes. VB6 strings are Unicode (UTF-16) and therefore each character has two bytes. The value of a fixed-length string will always have 500 characters - trailing spaces will be added, or excess characters truncated.

Dim s As String * 500  ' 500 characters, 1000 bytes

I wonder whether you are dealing with binary data rather than text. The Byte data type is better for binary data.

Dim byt(1000) as Byte  ' an array of 1000 bytes