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Yuri
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Posted: 17th Jul 2003 12:41
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i've a little question:
how many chars can hold a string?
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cusoi
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Posted: 17th Jul 2003 14:03
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I tought it was 255, but I'm not sure, wait a sec, i'm looking.

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cusoi
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Yeah I was right, I made a little test program. And when the string reached 256 it gave an error.

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Yuri
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Posted: 17th Jul 2003 14:11
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i've to hold about 5000 chars.. how may i do this??
please help

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Steverino
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Posted: 17th Jul 2003 15:11
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Put them in an array. (See DB docs.)

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John H
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Posted: 17th Jul 2003 16:10
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Beat me 2 It Yikes 5000 Characters is a bloody long string!

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Yuri
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Posted: 17th Jul 2003 16:29
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@steverino
i can't use arrays because i've to do string manipulation...
i'm trying to use memblocks...

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Why do you need 5000 characters!

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Mattman
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data and read maybe

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the_winch
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Posted: 17th Jul 2003 19:26
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If you have dbpro it will handle a 5000 charecter string. The length is proberly dependant on memory.
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