[AccessD] Hitting Upper Limit of 401 Characters in String Bui lding

...hmmm...no answer to a 401.  Since you're dealing with a report, could the
physical size of the control be the limitation?  CanGrow?

For a Report:
Number of characters in a text box 65,535

For a Table:
Number of characters in a Text field 255
Number of characters in a Memo field 65,535 when entering data through the
user interface; 1 gigabyte of character storage when entering data
programmatically



Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: John Frederick [mailto:j.frederick at att.net] 
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:06 PM
To: Access D Submissions
Subject: [AccessD] Hitting Upper Limit of 401 Characters in String Building


I'm building big strings to populate what look like spreadsheet cells on a
report.  I wasn't sure how much data the client would be entering in the
text fields that go into the strings, but I expected to run into a 255 or
256 chr limit.  Apparently, the limit I'm hitting is 401.  Do anyone know,
off hand, why 401 is a magic number?  My last recourse, I guess, is a temp
table with a memo field.  I know I can open a recordset on a memo field and
append to it build up long strings.

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