Stripping Returns

[Jerry Jensen]

Right. That was what I was trying to show. Jacque got different results because she was using LC 7, as we now know. LC7 extended the limit to just under 2^32. I was using LC 6.7 with its limit of just under 2^16. All is well.
.Jerry

On Nov 19, 2014, at 1:10 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:

> Jerry.
> 
> The variable accum had a length of 110K, the field truncated that to 65-odd K, the reload just reflected what was in the field.
> 
> Craig
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Jensen <jhj at jhj.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 3:43 pm
> Subject: Re: Stripping Returns
> 
> 
> On Nov 19, 2014, at 12:14 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 
>> Curiosity made me test:
>> 
>> on setup
>> repeat until len(tStr) > 66000
>>   put any word of the colornames & space after tStr
>> end repeat
>> put last word of tStr -- for reference later
>> put tStr into fld 1
>> end setup
>> 
>> The field is a list field with a horizontal scrollbar. I can't see the end of 
> the line visually but the message box knows what it is.
>> 
>> From the message box:
>> 
>> put len(line 1 of fld 1) --  66004
>> put len(fld 1) -- 66004
>> put the last word of line 1 of fld 1 -- matches what the handler put there
>> 
>> Works the same for me without the spaces in the string.
> 
> Curiouser and curiouser. The code below answers 110000 65533 65533.
> The field has a vertical scroll bar, unchanged from dragging it into the card. 
> The lines wrap.
> This seems to lead to a different conclusion than your test.
> Curious!
> 
> on mouseUp
>     local temp, accum, reload
>     put "1234567890 " into temp
>     repeat 10000
>           put temp after accum
>     end repeat
>     put accum into fld 1 -- 110,000 chars
>     put fld 1 into reload
>     answer the length of accum && the length of fld 1 && the length of reload
> end mouseUp
> 
> .Jerry
> 
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