Apple script problems
Sarah Reichelt
sarahr at genesearch.com.au
Tue Dec 16 16:58:57 EST 2003
> You are a champ, proving the superiority of string theory!
:-)
> It returns a tab/return delimited string.
Great
>
> Unfortunately, for a big file, I get an "execution error." But I got
> that without the "as string." I don't think this is a Run Rev capacity
> problem. I am able to import the file into a varaibe (or a field). I
> suspect that AppleScript has limits on string lengths.
Yes, 32K is it's limit.
>
> Back to the tried-and-true--importing a text file.
or don't get every record. Can you get records by number e.g.
get record 1 to 100
then loop through the database?
Cheers,
Sarah
sarahr at genesearch.com.au
http://www.troz.net/Rev/
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