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String is too long to fit
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28/12/1998 12:01:04
 
 
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28/12/1998 11:53:39
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00170802
Message ID:
00170806
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31
>I am getting an error in one of my forms that I have not seen before.
>Error 1903 (String is too long to fit).
>
>The line that crashes is calling a modal form and passing a form property as a parameter. I have not determined the limit size of the parameter, but LEN(THISFORM.MyProp) = 100 works, and LEN(THISFORM.MyProp) = 400 does not.
>
>I can call the same form from the command window with
>lcText = REPLICATE("W",405)
>DO FORM Myform WITH lcText
>
>and I don't get the error.
>
>Does anybody know what causes this?

My guess would be that "myProp" is stored as a character data type and is therefore limited to 254 characters, whereas lcText is a character string an can be longer than that.
Rick Borup, MCSD

recursion (rE-kur'-shun) n.
  see recursion.
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