>Hi Roxanne,
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>Literals are limited to 255 characters in VFP. You have to use "part1"+"part2" and so on to built longer strings. The string itself can be up to a little less than 16 MB, a command line can have 8 KB compiled code.
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>Christof

Christof,

Why was the length of a character variable changed from 2GB to 16MB between VFP5 & 6? In fact in VFP6/SP3, I can read a file into a character variable using FILETOSTR and be larger than 16MB. So why does the 16MB limit exist if it can be exceeded, or is this just a recommendation for an upper limit? It does seem to flog the disk when you go over the 16MB size.