How to assign content of a file to a string variable in progress openedge 4gl?

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Assigning content of a huge file around 80 KB to a string variable

copy-lob from file "E:\edifact\test\22685.EDI" to text-memptr.
v-edistring  = get-string(text-memptr,1).

shows error attempt to exceed maximum size of character variable.

Currently I am running in windows , can you please mention what code I should add ? — mac100, Apr 04 '16 at 10:58
v-edistring needs to be a LONGCHAR, not a regular CHARACTER string — Tim Kuehn, Apr 04 '16 at 12:10

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '16 at 13:40

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Do you really need the mempointer? Otherwise you can just COPY-LOB into a LONGCHAR directly.

DEFINE VARIABLE cString AS LONGCHAR   NO-UNDO.

COPY-LOB FROM FILE "E:\edifact\test\PFCONCEPT22685.EDI" TO cString.

answered Apr 04 '16 at 13:40

Jensd

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