# Variable length records

**URL:** <https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/variable-length-records/192>\
**Category:** CloverDX Platform\
**Created:** [July 17, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/variable-length-records/192 "2007-07-17T00:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidsonhuttonintera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@davidsonhuttonintera](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/davidsonhuttonintera)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/variable-length-records/192/1 "2007-07-17T00:00:00Z")

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Does clover support variable length records.  
For example,  
the falways irst 5 bytes define field 1  
the always next 10 bytes define field 2  
the next 2 bytes always contain the length of the remaining fields which are comma delimited.

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**Author:** ![mzatopek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@mzatopek](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/mzatopek)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/variable-length-records/192/2 "2007-07-23T15:25:25Z")

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Unfortunately this functionality is not implemented so far. The best solving approach I see in a implementation of recorods with a tree structure. And this is of course sheduled in our feature plan.