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>>I meant the 255 character limit of a string.
>> That is, whether you create the variable using TEXT .. ENDTEXT
>> or otherwise, the resulting variable cannot be greater than 255.
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>That limit is only for "quoted strings", the number of characters between a single pair of quotation marks.
>When you for instance split the long string into pieces, or fill the variable programmatically, the official limit is ~16MB.
>
>cVar = REPLICATE('x',16777184)
>? LEN(cVar)
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Stefan and Sergey,
Thank you for clarifying and explaining the difference.
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