>Cetin
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>>>Are you sure making string longer than 255 would make it a memo in SQL ? <<
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>C(254) is the max char field size in a VFP table or cursor, so a string longer than that will be a memo.
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>If the first row has a calculated field length <255 then it may be expressed as a character field with truncation for any subsequent fields that are longer. Hence the PADR().
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>Regards
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>JR

John,
I accidentally happen to know max char field size. I was referring to :

*---Make sure string>255 characters so it will be a memo field in SQL
IF LEN(lcString)<255
 lcString=PADR(lcString,255)
ENDIF

RETURN lcString

I just couldn't get how this would work. W/o structure of SQL is not prepared as 'memo' for the field my trials return 'String too long to fit'. What am I doing wrong ? Would you provide a sample. Thanks.
Cetin