Question Length

[Chasingcars]

Hi AB's just tried to post a question which was uner the 4000 character limit but keeps returning an error for being over length? Any ideas? Could I try posting in 2 parts? The question was length was 3800 approx so well within 4000 limit!

[bednobs]

did you have spaces at the end/beginning?

[Chasingcars]

Hi bednobs, I did check this but no just full stop at the end and still 200 characters spare..!

[naomi24]

I would just post half of it in the question box and put '....continued' at the end - and then post the rest in the 'answer now' box and start it with 'continued.....'.

[Chasingcars]

Thanks naomi24, will do that.

Nearly did and then wasn't sure if that was against the rules!

[naomi24]

Not as far as I'm aware.  I'm sure it will be fine.  :o)

[bhg481]

Did you count spaces as characters? If you didn't that could explain the discrepancy.

[Chasingcars]

Hi bhg481, thanks yes it counts the spaces and characters as I type as I did notice where I had double spaced in error and removed a space, the overall character count reduced. How odd! Not to worry I have now posted, albeit in 2 halves! Frustrating as edited the question so it would fit originally as one post!

[bhg481]

Just as an aside - back in the day it seems that if a postcard had fewer than 5(?) words as greeting it could be sent at a cheaper rate. One of the scouts I went camping with discovered this and omitted all spaces from his text and got away with the cheaper rate.