Microsoft KB Archive/82152

= Microsoft Knowledge Base =

Test Driver &quot;Line Too Long&quot;, Line Limited to 253 Characters
Last reviewed: October 19, 1994

Article ID: Q82152

The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Test for Windows, versions 1.0 and 2.0

SUMMARY
Each line in the Test Driver Edit window is limited to 255 characters, but you can actually only enter 253 characters. The last two positions are reserved for the carriage return plus linefeed (CR+LF) combination that is automatically added to the end of each line.

If you try to enter more than 253 characters, you will receive a message box stating &quot;Line too long&quot;, and you will be prevented from entering anything other than an ENTER keystroke for that line of code.

If you are using Microsoft Test version 2.0, you can use a line continuation character (&quot;_&quot;, the underscore) to break a long line of code into two or more separate lines. Microsoft Test version 1.0 does not support line continuation.