DOCUMENT:Q305238  27-AUG-2001  [foxpro]
TITLE   :FIX: FOR...EACH Fails with Character Array Element > 255
PRODUCT :Microsoft FoxPro
PROD/VER::5.0,5.0a,6.0
OPER/SYS:
KEYWORDS:kbOOP kbvfp kbvfp500a kbvfp500aBUG kbvfp600 kbvfp600bug kbGrpDSFox kbDSupport kbCodeSni

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0a, 6.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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When you use a FOR...NEXT command with a character array element that contains
more than 255 characters, the following error may be received:

   String is too long to fit.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products that are
listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem was corrected in Microsoft Visual FoxPro version 7.0 for Windows.

MORE INFORMATION
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To reproduce the problem, create a program and run the following code in Visual
FoxPro 5.0 or 6.0:

   DIMENSION  laX(1)
   laX(1) = SPACE( 256 )
   FOR EACH lcX IN laX
   	? lcX
   NEXT

Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kbOOP kbvfp kbvfp500a kbvfp500aBUG kbvfp600 kbvfp600bug kbGrpDSFox kbDSupport kbCodeSnippet kbvfp500xSearch kbvfp700fix kbvfp700 
Technology        : kbVFPsearch kbAudDeveloper kbVFP500 kbVFP600 kbVFP500a
Version           : :5.0,5.0a,6.0
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix

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