In ISQL or DB-Access, you can't do it.
In ESQL/C, I4GL, NewEra, etc, you use a variable to store the string,
and you use the variable in place of the literal in the INSERT statement.
Yours,
Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>
>From: Yudong Sun <ysun@econnect.ca>
>Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 07:01:58 -0700
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>How can I programmatically insert a string of more than 256 characters?
>I got the error:
> Quoted string exceeded 256 characters
>Any solutions to this?