Right. That was what I was trying to show. Jacque got different results because she was using LC 7, as we now know. LC7 extended the limit to just under 2^32. I was using LC 6.7 with its limit of just under 2^16. All is well. .Jerry
On Nov 19, 2014, at 1:10 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > Jerry. > > The variable accum had a length of 110K, the field truncated that to 65-odd > K, the reload just reflected what was in the field. > > Craig > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Jensen <j...@jhj.com> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 3:43 pm > Subject: Re: Stripping Returns > > > On Nov 19, 2014, at 12:14 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > >> Curiosity made me test: >> >> on setup >> repeat until len(tStr) > 66000 >> put any word of the colornames & space after tStr >> end repeat >> put last word of tStr -- for reference later >> put tStr into fld 1 >> end setup >> >> The field is a list field with a horizontal scrollbar. I can't see the end >> of > the line visually but the message box knows what it is. >> >> From the message box: >> >> put len(line 1 of fld 1) -- 66004 >> put len(fld 1) -- 66004 >> put the last word of line 1 of fld 1 -- matches what the handler put there >> >> Works the same for me without the spaces in the string. > > Curiouser and curiouser. The code below answers 110000 65533 65533. > The field has a vertical scroll bar, unchanged from dragging it into the > card. > The lines wrap. > This seems to lead to a different conclusion than your test. > Curious! > > on mouseUp > local temp, accum, reload > put "1234567890 " into temp > repeat 10000 > put temp after accum > end repeat > put accum into fld 1 -- 110,000 chars > put fld 1 into reload > answer the length of accum && the length of fld 1 && the length of reload > end mouseUp > > .Jerry > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
