[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Forum Post: Re: Input From Named Pipe

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The only way I've found to read from a named pipe is to define a longchar. Then I place an import inside a repeat, and read the data into a character variable. Finally I can append the character data to the longchar var. The copy-lob only seemed to throw an error when the data was in a named pipe. I only have some basic text in the pipe. But if the data is in a file, copy-lob is ok. Can I be sure that the import statement will not read more data than the character variable can hold?

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