Foxpro doesn't have a variable data type that is limited to 256, only character fields in tables... that's wierd.

Well, you don't have to use a report variable, you could declare the variable in the calling procedure, and it should scope to any report function.


>This seemed to work for me - until I started getting very long strings! Are these variables limited to 256 characters or something?
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>Any ideas for getting around the limitation?
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>>>I'm needing to concatenate records together into a large string which I will reprint at the bottom of my report. I thought I was clever in planning to do this as a report variable, but it seems report variables can only be numbers....
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>>Report variables can be strings too...
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>>I would initialize a report variable and then in the report, call a function from the detail band that does a
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>>vMyString = vMyString + SourceTable.Field
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>>and then place vMyString in the footer.