Stripping Returns

[JB]

Thank you.  The logic is simple enough.
Even so it should be noted in the read
file that reading to the end of a file will
fail to provide you the info if the file has
more than 65,535 characters.

John Balgenorth


On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:35 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> 
> Did you try this? Simple to do in a little test card. The chars beyond 65535 will be lost. Do you see what the likely answer to your second question is? Note that reading from a file does not anticipate what you will do with the data. Variables have no limits, within memory, of course, but what you do with that data may hit a wall.
> 
> 
> Craig Newman
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JB <sundown at pacifier.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 9:48 pm
> Subject: Stripping Returns
> 
> 
> A field has a limit on the amount of characters
> you can have on each line.  What if I put the
> text of a field in a variable and it has 500,000
> characters.  Then I strip all of the returns that
> are in the field.  Does that leave only one line
> with 500,000 characters?  That exceeds the
> amount of characters allowed per line so what
> happens to the text in the variable?
> 
> Another similar question is what happens if I am
> reading a file until the end and it is very large.  Will
> returns be automatically placed if needed so the line
> limit got characters is not exceeded or do I need to
> read large files in sections that are less than the line
> limit for characters?
> 
> John Balgenorth
> 
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