I am not convinced. The property is perfectly capable of holding a valuea of that size, I am just not able to pass it without first assigning it to a variable.
Secondly, property values are not stored internally in character fields, but in memo fields.

Rick?


>I think Rick's post answers the question. At least "technically." :)
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>>Well problem solved, but mystery is not. Why am I able to assign a string of that length, and access it, but not able to directly pass it as a parameter?