4gl error in one of my programs

Hi I get this error sometimes in one of my programs. Im not sure where there error would be. Date: 26/03/2004 Time: 11:47:34 FORMS statement error number -1207. Converted value does not fit into the allotted space

brett wrote: > I get this error sometimes in one of my programs. Im not sure where there > error would be. > > Date: 26/03/2004 Time: 11:47:34 > FORMS statement error number -1207. > Converted value does not fit into the allotted space > > From finderr -1207 > > A noncharacter value, after conversion to a character string, is too > long to fit in the buffer that was provided. If the conversion was > automatic, change the program to provide a larger host variable to > receive the string. If this action was an explicit call to conversion > function, pass a larger buffer. > > The error has just started appearing in the program log after the program > has been running fine for over a year !!! > > any ideas ? Maybe you've got a display field that has space for 4 digits, but some of the values sometimes need 5 digits? Or N vs N+1 for any other value of N? -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/