>I am not returning it into a table, it is going to an asp page. I tryed declaring the variable as a memo ei:
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>LOCAL test AS MEMO
>
>but if I assign a string larger then 255, I still get an error when I try to save the method.
this works for me:
m1 = GetOver255()
? m1
FUNCTION GetOver255
LOCAL aaa AS String
aaa = REPLICATE("ccc",500)
RETURN aaa
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