Line too long

A physical line of Visual Basic code can contain up to 1023 characters. This error has the following cause and solution:

  • A line contains too many characters. You can create a longer logical line by joining physical lines with a line-continuation character, a space followed by an underscore ( _). Up to 25 physical lines can be joined with line-continuation characters to form a single logical line, or 24 consecutive line-continuation characters. Thus, a logical line could potentially contain a total of 10,230 characters. Beyond that, you must break the line into individual statements or assign some expressions to intermediatevariables.

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