Need to put more than 255 caracthers in a string

[ivoestg]

Hi,
I need to put about 2480 characthers in a string... is this possible... i have tried .. AnsiString, and WideString... but no success.

Thanks thanks...

I'm in ivoestg@yahoo.com

 

[DVFS]

To my knowledge a Ansi Long string should be able to hold an unlimited number of charachters up to your available memory.

 

[McMerfy]

From Delphi help:
"AnsiString ~2^31 characters (4 bytes to 2GB);
WideString ~2^30 characters (4 bytes to 2GB)"

--- markus

 

[cvgalante]

Check to make sure you don't have compiler directive {$H-} which turns

s : string;

into a 255 character string declaration. Default is {$H+} which makes it an AnsiString as McMerfy shows above.