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Hello,
I'm looking for a way to get the length of a string up to 255 chars into an integer.

strlen() only handles 80.

So I convert the str char using ord() to get the integer and I find that ord() too only handles up to 80.

I'm hoping someone has a simple answer...

I stand corrected on strlen() and ord(), thanks David.

It took some digging and I found that getPath and setPath are the limiting functions, it is GETPATH that only allows 80 chars:

getPath (path, PathLyr);

I hope you can prove me wrong on this one as well

The users that I have seem to use longer and longer path names and a recent event has prompted me to plug a fix to prevent it from happening again.

It looks like the next step is to write my own getpath255() unless it already exists...

Thanks for your help David,

Your code is along the lines of how I was thinking.

I have notes from way back in 1995 that getstr() does not handle 255 chars. The most I could pack in the str today is 133 chars for some reason.

David,

Would you happen to have any updated information on getflname()?

It seems I've run into another 80 char limit that will have to be resolved to allow 255 chars.