[ic] XLS import failure - 255 character limit issue.

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Jonathan Clark)]

> I've having an issue where I'm trying to import an Excel 97+ spreadsheet
>   into IC.  The problem is that IC takes a violent fit when the
> description/comment field is over 255 characters.  It will start to push
> MySQL errors.  Now I'm from me looking at the
> UI/usertags/import_fields.tag, I don't see anything that would cause any
> fields to be truncated/filled with upper ASCII chars by IC.  But then
> again the code is very well written, making it painful for me to read :)
>
> Now I've tested my install of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and it reads the
> long descriptions fine.  I'm not sure what else I can do to aid in this
> matter.
>
> Any ideas?

Might be a daft question, but are you sure its a MySQL table? Only dbm
tables have a field size limit of 255 chars.

Jonathan
Webmaint.