Title Max. Chars.

[ADO DOT NET]

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:

[snarfblam]

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.)?

[mskeel]

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.