As is often the case with Fabio's reported issues, I find myself wondering why and how you found this?

Why do you *need* to pad a string longer than a million characters?

>Hi everybody,
>
>Perhaps Fabio already reported it, but I just discovered a problem in VFP8:
>

>ln=RAND()*100000000000000
>?ln
>?ALLTRIM(PADr(m.ln,10000000000000000000000000))
>?PADr(m.ln,10000000000000000000000000)
>?ln
>?ALLTRIM(PADr(m.ln,1000000000000))
>?ALLTRIM(PADr(m.ln,100000000000))
>?ALLTRIM(PADr(m.ln,10000000000))
>?ALLTRIM(PADr(m.ln,1000000000))
>?ALLTRIM(PADr(m.ln,100000000))
>?ALLTRIM(PADr(m.ln,10000000))

>
>In the documentation to PADR (C,L) functions there is no mentioning about what is the maximum number allowed in these functions. I believe, it should be documented. What does VFP9 say about it?
>
>Thanks in advance.