Re: Win32::OLE, cuts off at 255 Chars...

Loks like you have encountered a bug in Win32::OLE

You might try Win32::ODBC which comes standard with AS builds.

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Not a Bug in Perl by maa (Pilgrim) on Jan 31, 2004 at 19:42 UTC
Hi, This isn't a bug in Perl, it's a Win32 problem. a "String" in the Win32 world is (up to) 255 characters terminated by \0 (as in a C string). You'll find this is a limitation of a "Text" field in MS Access, too. You can also demonstrate this "environment variable feature" in IIS if you enter a key=value in a query string where the value has more than 255 characters... it gets chopped and Env variables get stuck in... Neat! HTH - Mark	[reply]

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Not a Bug in Perl
by maa (Pilgrim) on Jan 31, 2004 at 19:42 UTC

Hi,
This isn't a bug in Perl, it's a Win32 problem. a "String" in the Win32 world is (up to) 255 characters terminated by \0 (as in a C string). You'll find this is a limitation of a "Text" field in MS Access, too.

You can also demonstrate this "environment variable feature" in IIS if you enter a key=value in a query string where the value has more than 255 characters... it gets chopped and Env variables get stuck in... Neat!

HTH - Mark

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