>>>>Hey all
>>>>
>>>>Is there a caveat missing from the help? I just built a set of command strings like this.
>>>>
>>>>

CLEAR
>>>>CREATE CURSOR csrTest (cField1 c(10))
>>>>lcCmd = ""
>>>>DO WHILE LENC(m.lcCmd) < 4740
>>>>	lcCmd = m.lcCmd + "csrTest.cField1 with csrTest.cField1,"
>>>>ENDDO
>>>>?LENC(m.lcCmd)
>>>>lcCmd = LEFTC(m.lcCmd,LENC(m.lcCmd)-1)
>>>>replace &lcCmd. IN csrTest

>>>>
>>>>The number 4740 is differing based on the actual alias and field names. The help says 8192 is the command line length. Obviously that's not completely accurate. What is the maximum length? How can one determine the maximum length before executing?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Something else is at work here, not the length of the command, the error for a command that exceeds the max is "line too long" and not "syntax error"
>>>
>>>

>>>lnLength		= 8190
>>>EXECSCRIPT(REPLICATE('*', lnLength))
>>>
>>>lnLength		= 8191
>>>EXECSCRIPT(REPLICATE('*', lnLength))
>>>

>>
>>I agree it seems to be something other than command line length, except that even when there is no syntax error in the concatenated string, it generates a syntax error after exceeding a certain length.
>
>Have you tried to save the command as a file, and use execscript() to run it? How many times does the loop run before it errors?

execscript fails at the same length just using the memvar. I would not ever want to create a file to execute for something like this.