>>There's a limit on the size of VFP string variable - 16,777,184 bytes. You can create longer variable but string function will generate an error.
>>

lnMax = 16777184
>>? ALLTRIM(PADr(m.ln, lnMax))
>>? ALLTRIM(PADr(m.ln, lnMax+1))
>>

Check http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~StringLength
>>
>Thanks, Sergey. This is what I figured. Just thought, it should be explicitly mentioned in the documentation to these functions.


On the documentation it is written:

eExpression 
Specifies the expression to be padded. This expression can be any expression type except a logical or currency expression or a general or picture field. 

This is incorrect:

? PADR(- $922337203685477.5807,21)