Hi Rolf,

Clipper can handle strings up to 64K (65535) characters.

Creating fields longer than 256 chars is a bit tricky, but can be done and the help system offers various options for accomplishing this. I don't know what's the maximum length, but seems to be (256^2) - 1

Alex




>Hi,
>
>creating a VFP program to generate data that will be imported to an application created with Clipper, the Clipper programmer claims that clipper cannot read strings longer than 255 characters.
>
>I find this hard to believe, and wonder if you can tell if this is true or not?
>
>Rolf