Ken -- I've tried that as well, but as many strings may be over 1000 bytes, that gets kind of tedious.

Odd the VFP doesn't provide some native way to handle this. Oh, well.


>Hi Jim,
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>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.
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>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