putting a relative large amount of data into a field

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Wed Jun 25 15:08:01 EDT 2003


Hi Dar,

>The length of a line in a field is limited to about 64K.
Interesting... Checking this out further, it seems like the length of a line
in a variable is not limited to 64K, though.

-Chipp



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> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Dar Scott
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 9:27 AM
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> Subject: Re: putting a relative large amount of data into a field
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 04:34 AM, wouter wrote:
>
> > If a "relative" large amount of data contained in a variable is put
> > into a field, the field doesn't show all the data although it seems to
> > be present.
>
> The length of a line in a field is limited to about 64K.  Check the
> length of b and see if you hit that limit.  On my system the limit
> seems to be 65,533.  I think the limit still holds even with wrap
> enabled.  (I didn't run your handlers.)
>
> If you are thinking of putting binary data into the field, you might
> run into trouble.  A null in the data will make probably make it so you
> can't get your data back.
>
> If you are thinking of text, then think of this as your paragraph
> limit.  (Unless you do something special.)
>
> If you are thinking of tabular text data, then you simply put line ends
> in at appropriate places.
>
> Dar Scott
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