From: "Morrison Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> The only problem is it counts carriage returns as 1 character
> where as perl length() counts them as 2. And DBI automatically
> considers anything over 4000 as a LONG.
Perhaps a newline ("\n") is getting converted to carriage return/newline
("\
Well, I figured out my problem, and I know this
problably is the wrong alias but may some one else
know a work around or it might be helpful to some one else.
I found a neat little javascript that checks the length
of a form field:
var postmaxchars = 3999;
function validate(theform) {
i
