[RBASE-L] - Re: How do I create a very long text string

[Jason Kramer]

Les,     A VARCHAR should do it.                                                 Jason Jason Kramer University Archives and Records Management 002 Pearson Hall (302) 831 - 3127 (voice) (302) 831 - 6903 (fax) On 11/3/2011 10:02 AM, Les Stark wrote:     I need to create a file that contains an EDI document that is a very long text string with no hidden markers such as EOL etc. It could be thousands of characters long.      I tried to construct a long variable string, OUTPUT fname ; WRITE .vstring; OUTPUT SCREEN... but there appears to be a 1500 character limit on variables.    I tried setting EOFCHAR OFF and... OUTPUT fname APPEND; WRITE .vstring; OUTPUT SCREEN in a loop that wrote each piece of the string variable to the file.  The file looks like a single string but there is an invisible character imbedded after each append. HELP... there must be a way in Rbase?