Is there runtime checking for valid string length? I noticed when I passed a string with length 255 into a function and then tried to append a single character to the string, no error occurred. Am I correct? There used to be an FBII preference to enable runtime string length checking, but I don't see one in FB^3? I'm using FB 3.2.0gm. For example, this fn results in a string length of 64 (actually it's 320) but no error at runtime: dim a$ a$ = "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" a$=a$+a$ a$=a$+a$ a$=a$+a$ a$=a$+a$ print len(a$) stop --Steve