EXPORT length limitations?

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Mon Mar 22 06:49:18 PST 2004


Robert Haussmann wrote:
> 
> > > Does anybody know if there is a line length limitation on the
> > > EXPORT command?  If so, what is it, and does it vary with the
> > > different types of EXPORT statements?
> >
> > Short of the 32K field length limit, EXPORT has no length limits.
> >
> 
> Very helpful--thank you.  Is it correct to assume then that it would
> be possible to combine two or more fields to go beyond 32K:
> exp(1)=aa{ab   where aa and ab are each 32K?  Or would that
> expression (aa{ab) be limited to 32K as well (so that we would
> need to do exp(1)=aa;exp(2)=ab?

The result of concatenating two fields is another field, so it is
limited to 32K as well.

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