Sort Command in 3.5 is adding lines to a variable

[Timothy Bleiler]

I agree with Richard.

It looks like <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi? 
id=7809> is NOT "fixed".
Can someone reopen the report? I think its severity should be changed  
to "major".

I will go back to using 3.0, for now.


Tim Bleiler, Ph.D.
Instructional Designer, HSIT
University at Buffalo
Phone: 716-829-3867




On Jul 2, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Paul Looney wrote:
>> I have had the opposite happen.
>> On a large variable, sorting removed lines.
>> Rev 3.0, OS X 10.5
>
> If memory serves, that was the result of a limitation of the sort  
> command where it could only be used reliably on data in which no  
> single line exceeded 65,535 chars.
>
> According to the v3.5 Engine Change Log, that was fixed in v3.5:
> <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5932>
>
> Unfortunately the current limit is not noted in the docs for the  
> Sort command, nor in that report, so I don't know exactly what it is  
> in the latest version.  But 64k of text was a lot for a single line,  
> so whatever it's been raised to should be plenty for most common  
> tasks.
>
>
> Timothy's report of the trailing blank line may be a regression  
> error which had been marked as "fixed" in the 3.5 Engine Change Log:
> <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7809>
>
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