Stripping Returns

[JB]

More info that is good to know.
Thanks again.

John Balgenorth


On Nov 19, 2014, at 12:14 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 11/19/2014, 10:54 AM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
>> The text is truncated, not simply not displayed:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> on mouseUp
>>    put "1234567890 " into temp
>>    repeat 10000
>>       put temp after accum
>>    end repeat
>>    put accum into fld 1 -- 110,000 chars
>>    answer the length of fld 1
>> end mouseUp
>> 
>> 
>> You get 65,533.
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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