Large string creation to hold over 10,000 characters

[123ASP]

Hi,
How can I create a large string datatype that I use for concantenation of over 10,000 characters.
Is this correct:
dim Largstring as varchr(10000)

What I am really getting into is to create a large variable in which I assign a huge amount of data to it ensuring that It does not truncate any values.
Is this doable.
thanks
Al

 

[mwolf00]

Remeber that all variables are of dtatype Variant. You do not dim AS in vbScript. Therefore your data will not be truncated

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build better and bigger idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rick Cook

 

[mwolf00]

I have had a string that was over 1.2 million chrachters in vbScript. The only problem that I encountered was that adding a few more characters to a string that long is very taxing (and slow). Here's a solution...

<%
Class strCat
Private IntCntr
Private strArray()
Private intLength
Public Property Get Length
Length = intLength
End Property
Public Property Let Length( ByVal intLen)
intLength = intLen
IntCntr = 0
Redim strArray(1)
strArray(0) = &quot;&quot;
Redim strArray(intLength)
End Property
Public Property Get Value
Value = Join( strArray,&quot;&quot
End Property
Private Sub Class_Initialize()
IntCntr = 0
Length = 100000
End Sub
Public function Add( strToAdd)
strArray(IntCntr) = strToAdd
IntCntr = IntCntr + 1
End function
End Class

set htmlOut = new StrCat

'this adds values to the string
htmlOut.add(&quot;your html here&quot

'this gets the value of the string
response.write htmlOut.value()


%>

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build better and bigger idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rick Cook

 

[Tarwn]

I had one once that was 250Mb...it was a very big CSV file

Something like over 8,000,000 lines long...not brave enough to do a character count...