>>>>Hi,
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>>>>As I am troubleshooting an issue I have to view a very long string in either the debugger or using messagebox approach. Messagebox cuts off after some number of characters (I don't know what the limit is). And in the debugger it is also almost impossible to view this string. What else can I do?
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>>>>TIA
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>>>1024 chars is the max. Either make your own messagebox (you can use a form with an editbox on it) or write the text to a file using strtofile()
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>>Yes, this is what I did. Broke the string into 3 messageboxes. Thank you.
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>You're welcome, although you went a different route :o) As long as you got what you needed is what matters. My personal choice would be a resizable form with a resizable editbox on it so it's re-usable and the user can stretch the form and the message in the editbox instead of just scrolling....
I was just rushing to get to the root of the problem. So using SUBSTR() and 3 message boxes was sufficient.
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