>>>Is there any maximum length string that can be generated with file to string?
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>>Yes - 16MB (16,777,184 bytes).
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>>That's the maximum length of a character string in VFP.
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>This is the "official" maximum. We are using FileToStr() with files up to 100 MB without problems, but.... on the other side you can't use most of the VFP string functions to manipulate this strings.

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