putting a relative large amount of data in 1 line into a field :^)

[wouter]

Thank you for your quick response.
It is indeed true that the number of characters in one line shouldn't 
be larger than uint2 (dopy me ).
But this doesn't explain why, if the number of characters is still 
within the limit of one line, they don't all show when copied in 1 
chunk from the variable to  the field.
But they do when copied in smaller chunks (as shown by the handlers).
WA

On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 17:52 PM, Dar Scott  wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 04:34 AM, wouter wrote:
>
>> If a "relative" large amount of data contained in a variable is put
>> into a field, the field doesn't show all the data although it seems to
>> be present.
>
> The length of a line in a field is limited to about 64K.  Check the
> length of b and see if you hit that limit.  On my system the limit
> seems to be 65,533.  I think the limit still holds even with wrap
> enabled.  (I didn't run your handlers.)
>
> If you are thinking of putting binary data into the field, you might
> run into trouble.  A null in the data will make probably make it so you
> can't get your data back.
>
> If you are thinking of text, then think of this as your paragraph
> limit.  (Unless you do something special.)
>
> If you are thinking of tabular text data, then you simply put line ends
> in at appropriate places.
>
> Dar Scott