Thank you. The logic is simple enough. Even so it should be noted in the read file that reading to the end of a file will fail to provide you the info if the file has more than 65,535 characters.
John Balgenorth On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:35 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > Hi. > > > Did you try this? Simple to do in a little test card. The chars beyond 65535 > will be lost. Do you see what the likely answer to your second question is? > Note that reading from a file does not anticipate what you will do with the > data. Variables have no limits, within memory, of course, but what you do > with that data may hit a wall. > > > Craig Newman > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: JB <sund...@pacifier.com> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Sent: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 9:48 pm > Subject: Stripping Returns > > > A field has a limit on the amount of characters > you can have on each line. What if I put the > text of a field in a variable and it has 500,000 > characters. Then I strip all of the returns that > are in the field. Does that leave only one line > with 500,000 characters? That exceeds the > amount of characters allowed per line so what > happens to the text in the variable? > > Another similar question is what happens if I am > reading a file until the end and it is very large. Will > returns be automatically placed if needed so the line > limit got characters is not exceeded or do I need to > read large files in sections that are less than the line > limit for characters? > > John Balgenorth > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
