Can't understand Schema Description of B&S

[Steve Taiwan]

I got the following content
****************
Schema description section.
Repeated for each field in a record:
1 byte numeric, length in bytes of field name
n bytes (defined by previous entry), field name
1 byte numeric, field length in bytes
end of repeating block
****************
And I can't understand what "1 byte numeric, field length in bytes" means.
Could anyone tell me what it means?
Thank you.

[Raj Nagappan]

Repeated for each field in a record:
1 byte numeric, length in bytes of field name
n bytes (defined by previous entry), field name
1 byte numeric, field length in bytes
end of repeating block

It means that there is:
(1) one byte of data which is a number, that tells you how many letters will follow in the field name
(2) the field name itself that occupies the number of bytes in (1) above
(3) another one byte which is a number, but this time tell you how many bytes there in the field storage.

eg. 5flags9 translates to:
(1) 5 bytes to follow in the fieldname
(2) fieldname = "flags", length = 5 (from 1 above)
(3) 9 bytes of data for this field in each record

[Julian Kennedy]

Good explanation. It should be understood that the 5 and 9 in '5flags9' are the numbers 0x05 and 0x09, rather than 5 and 9 in ASCII, however.

Jules

[Steve Taiwan]

Dear Raj Nagappan

Thank you for the explanation.
I got it.