BigText Data Type

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This complex data type handles large text documents.

Remarks

This data type cannot be shown in a message window or be seen in the Debugger.

The maximum length of a BigText variable is 2,147,483,647 characters and this corresponds to 2 GB.

You can use the BigText functions to manipulate a BigText variable, for example to extract part of a BigText variable or to add a text string to a BigText variable.

The normal string functions cannot be used with a BigText variable.

See Also

Reference

ADDTEXT Function (BigText)
GETSUBTEXT Function (BigText)
LENGTH Function (BigText)
READ Function (BigText)
TEXTPOS Function (BigText)
WRITE Function (BigText)