Filepro-list Digest, Vol 50, Issue 27

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Tyler (Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:48:25 -0700):

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
> wrote:
>
>> What is "the DLEN bug"?
>>
>
> DLEN in pre 5.6 occasionally bombs out for no reason causing rreport to
> die.  I was told it's related to the length of the actual data inside the
> variable, or some such.  It's in the release notes for 5.6 somewhere.
> Caused us endless grief until we isolated it.

I assume this, from the 5.0.12 readme (and probably the 5.6 release note),
is what you are referring to:

> (All) #662
>
>     DLEN() had an undocumented limit of 255 characters on the input
>     string.  The input is now unlimited, and the output is limited
>     to 4095.


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