>>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
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>How is that? I can open a large file containing a long string that far exceeds 256 characters (which I do a lot):
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>lcFileContents = FILETOSTR("somefile.txt")
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>I have other code that has RTF codes for a header that exceeds 256 characters. So how can the limit be 255 characters?

There's a difference between a memory variable that has a limit of about 16MB and a string literal with limit of 255 charaters. In your example lcFileContents is a memory variable and "somefile.txt" is a string literal.