Title Max. Chars.

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Hi,
I am writing a contact manager, which stores the title, first name, last name and address etc...
I allow each field to be up to 64 chars.
Regard Title, because English is not my primary language, how many characters should allow at most?
"Mr." is 3 chars
"Mrs." is 4
"Dr." is 3
Which word that can be a title has the most chars?
I think it's "President" which is 9 chars!!!??? :confused:
 
Nine would probably suffice, but would it hurt to just leave it at 64 chars like the rest? Is memory scarce? How is this data being stored (binary/text file, database, etc.)?
 
I agree, leave as much flexibility for the user as you can. The last thing you want is for someone to get a bad first impression because they wanted to be known as the "Head Executive Assistant to the Vice President Elect" and you only allowed them to use a handful of characters.
 
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