Dennis,

>If you want to edit via property editor (giiberish or not), you face length problems before running against the typical string limitations of vfp variables of a couple of megabytes, which AFAIK will be the same for properties. If you have to work on REALLY long strings in vfp use single record cursor memo fields.
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>I dumped a character string of 4,000 characters using the Property Editor, saved it, then went back to edit, then saved it again. I did this several times. Seems to be working so far.

from vfp help file:Maximum # of characters per character string or memory variable. 16,777,184

Working with strings trhee handful of MB long (file dumps, reports for postprocessing) you might have problems using variables or properties - some functions work on such strings without error, others not. But memo fields are good to use up to 2 Gig if no other records fill the FPT. 4k just is not a long string ;-)

regards

thomas