Craig,

Maybe it's me, but I found the help text on this (Overview of the language/data and field types), to be misleading.

Thanks for your help.

>>I wanted to store unlimited text in a property of an object. I thought I wouldn't be able to do it. I thought that the limit of a character variable was 254 chars. (As per VFP 6 help) But upon testing I found that I can issue:
>>cvar=replicate('x'+254)+replicate('y'+254)
>>?type('cvar') && returns C
>>?cvar && shows that all 508 chars are stored.
>>I thought there would be truncation
>>
>>I can also issue something like:
>>this.myproperty=replicate('x'+254)+replicate('y'+254)
>>or
>>this.myproperty=mytable.mymemofield
>>?type('this.myproperty') && returns C not M
>>without a problem
>>
>>Was this a limitation in earlier (prior to 6) version of VFP, or could you always do this?
>>
>>TIA
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>254 is the maximum length for a character field. A character variable can be 2 billion bytes.