First 1000 characters without loop?

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Waddingham wrote:

 > On 2017-06-23 03:19, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
 >> Seems murky.  I'd much rather at least have something like a byteLen
 >> function, which returns the number of bytes for a given string.  With
 >> that I can maintain byte offsets into a file with good performance
 >> and no ambiguity.
 >
 > You do:
 >
 >    the number of bytes in textEncode(tString, <encoding>)

Ah, yes - of course.  Thanks for the reminder.  I keep forgetting about 
the byte chunk type.

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