Marlon,

In VFP a table the largest size a fixed length character field is c(254). You can use a memo field to support strings up to several megabytes in length.

create cursor x1 ( cFixed c(254), mUnlimited m )
append blank
replace x1.cFixed with replicate( "1", 253 ) + "a", ;
   mUnlimited with replicate( replicate( "abcde12345", 500 ), 500 )
? len( x1.cFixed), len( x1.mUnlimited )

>vb can handle 255 characters of STRING datatype, how do you convert this in VFP as character dataytype?