> Hi,
> I am writing shell scripts to create some tree structure in an ODB. When 
> creating an array of strings, the default length of each string element is 32 
> characters. If odbedit is used interactively to create the array of strings, 
> the user is prompted to enter a different length if desired. But if the 
> command odbedit is called from a shell script, I did not succeed in passing 
> the argument to get a different length.
> I tried:
> odbedit -c "create STRING Test[8][40]"
> Or:
> odbedit -c "create STRING Test[8] 40"
> Or:
> odbedit -c "create STRING Test[8] \n 40"
> etc. all produce an array of 8 strings with 32 characters each.
> I haven't tried all possible syntaxes, but I suspect the length argument is 
> dropped. If it has not been fixed in a later release than the one I am using, 
> could this problem be looked at?

Ok, I added a command

odbedit -c "create STRING Test[8][40]"

which works now. Please update to SVN revision 4555 of odbedit.c

- Stefan