>No, the limit is 255 characters for a string literal.

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>The problem might be that you are limited to a length of 256 characters in a single line and the x="" characters are adding to the character count per line

How is that? I can open a large file containing a long string that far exceeds 256 characters (which I do a lot):

lcFileContents = FILETOSTR("somefile.txt")

I have other code that has RTF codes for a header that exceeds 256 characters. So how can the limit be 255 characters?