>The string literal can be up to 255 characters long. The character field in a table on other hand can only be 254 characters. I hope this will clear confusion.
hmmm try :
lcTheString= replicate("E",255)
wait wind lcTheString
That gives me an error, but if you try with 254 instead of 255 no error.
Einar
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