Comparing very long numeric strings

[Mark Brownell]

On Tuesday, March 16, 2004, at 02:10  PM, Jim Lyons wrote:

> I had very unexpected results from a fairly simple script. I have a 
> long string of 1s and 0s in a variable representing the states of 
> cells in a cellular automata simulation. There can be more than ten 
> thousand cells. To detect when the CA is no longer changing, I save 
> this string each cycle, then compare it with the string representing 
> the next state:

Are you saving these strings in a field? There is a 64 kb limit on 
continues strings without line breaks or returns in fields.

Mark