I answered to 'not documented'
Of course filetostr() works as it does not go through a variable.
Question vastly discussed on AtoutFox.
Var = "16 MB string" Var = m.var + 'n' && bingo
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Le 2 mai 2017 à 12:43, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com a écrit :
It is true and yet it is not. Rick Strahl wrote an article showing there are things you can do (and not do) with HUUGE files read in using FileToStr():
https://www.west-wind.com/wconnect/weblog/ShowEntry.blog?id=882
Since the Original Poster (anyone remember him :)?) was only performing read-only functions on the file once read in, this should work.
On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Thierry Nivelet tnivelet@foxincloud.com wrote: Mentioned in "Visual Foxpro system capacities"
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Le 1 mai 2017 à 23:20, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com a écrit :
the help file does say a 16MB limit on memory variables
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