>Greetings all -
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>I've been out of the VFP world for a while as most of my projects lately have been ColdFusion and SQL Server, so maybe I'm missing something obvious...
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>I created a simple VFP7 COM object that takes a character string as a parameter and parses it into various parts. Works fine for short strings, but it crashes with "String too long to fit" when passed more than 255 characters.
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>I'm obviously hitting the internal 255 limit for character data types, but I would have thought that with all the wiz-bang COM improvements to VFP7 that MSFT would have given us some more flexibility here...maybe it's here and I'm just missing it?
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>TIA,
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>Jay

Is that the error from the COM server? or is it thrown before the call to it?
If beforehand, how are you making the string? if you build it incrementally into a variable it should work just fine. e.g.

x = "string begins with"
x = x + " more of the string "
etc.

fwiw, I don't think there is an internal limit on strings, but rather on a single line.