URGENT...............

Question

i am using dataset and retreving the data from MS ACCESS file. It works fine. From that dataset i am putting the value into a string variable as:

string name = dataset.Tables["tablename"].Rows[0]["NAME"];

Now i have to display each character in the name so i am doing it:

for(int i=0; i<name.Length; i++)
{..........}

But i<name.Length is returning the field size instead of returning the length of the string.

eg

name = "ABC"

now the length should be 3 but it is returning 255.

Looking for prompt reply.