You know, there are many functions that take a string parameter and that doesn't mean they accept the maximum length. Some of these limitations are documented, some of them no. It's true that since VFP3, the doc contains many of them. That doesn't mean you must trust that any string can have anywhere the maximum length.

Vlad

>Hi Paul!
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>Nope, there is nothing about PADR() limits, but AFAIK PADR() function uses
>strings ;) and VFP have some limits in this case, haven't it?
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>>So?! I know it. Did you find there anything about PADR() limits?
>>>There is an useful topic in Help: VFP limits and capacity... You