maximum characters for string data type

[JT]

i don't know why i can't find this anywhere but -

what is the maximum number of characters that a string variable can hold - i
initially thought it was 256, but after some testing it seems that it can
hold much more than that..

tia

[Mark Schupp]

vbScript uses variants for all variables. For strings a variant points to a
Win32 BSTR which can have 2*31 characters.

I don't know about JScript but I presume it also uses variants and would
have similar behavior.

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"JT" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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i don't know why i can't find this anywhere but -

what is the maximum number of characters that a string variable can hold - i initially thought it was 256, but after some testing it seems that it can
hold much more than that..

tia

[Aaron [SQL Server MVP]]

Let us know if you reach the limit. You will probably experience server
slowdown / memory chaos long before you have a string big enough to hit an
actual limit. You will probably get a response buffer limit exceeded error,
maybe?

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"JT" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
news:O4**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

i don't know why i can't find this anywhere but -

what is the maximum number of characters that a string variable can hold - i initially thought it was 256, but after some testing it seems that it can
hold much more than that..

tia