In VFP9, the watch window tip length limit has been raised from 255 to 4096, with the variable/object name and = sign being included in the 4096. Also, the tip does not disappear after a given time. If the tip text is longer than 4096, ... is appended to the end of the tip text past the 4096 characters.

>Ken -- I've tried that as well, but as many strings may be over 1000 bytes, that gets kind of tedious.
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>Odd the VFP doesn't provide some native way to handle this. Oh, well.
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>>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,
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>>Ken
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>>>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