Hi Jim,

In addition to what others have said, I have, at times, in the watch window, displayed pieces of the variable by SUBSTR(myVar,1,100), SUBSTR(myVar,101,200) etc etc. Of course it sometimes breaks the strings in the middle of a word, but at least I can see the whole variable.

HTH,

Ken

>How does one view (and possibly edit) long strings when debugging?
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>The debugger allow you to view as much of a string as will fit it one line, and hovering the cursor will show more of it (up to 256 characters?), but even this disappears after a very short interval.
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>However, at times, I have longer strings (created at run time as part of SELECT statements). Is there a way that I can view and possible edit them?
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>Thanks,
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>Jim