Re: Read over 2000 characters in Forms 4.5?

In article: <34B9F2D6.574_at_comp.polyu.edu.hk>   Jimmy <c6635500_at_comp.polyu.edu.hk> writes:
>
> Hello all,
>
> How can I read a line from a text file with a line over 2000 characters long? (in Forms
> 4.5) Since the max. characters of varchar2 in Forms is 2000, when I use text_io.get_line
> function, the Forms raises the VALUE_ERROR exception when the line is over 2000 characters. Is it
> possible to read over 2000 characters in Forms PL/SQL?
>
> Thanks,
> Jimmy

Is there a get_char function in text_io ? Perhaps you can get round the limitation that way ?

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