David Korn wrote: > > Subject: Re: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Maximum string length in ksh? > -------- > > > ksh88 in Solaris is slightly different, AFAIK there is an array size > > limit of 4096 entries and string length was AFAIK limited, too (but I am > > not sure... maybe I am wrong...). > > ksh88 had an array size limit of 511 or 1023 which was increased to 4095 when > ksh93 was first released. Also, ksh93 supports associative arrays. > For an associative array, the subscript is a string rather than an arithmetic > expression. There is no limit to the number of elements in an associate > array. > > In ksh93n (released in 2002), the indexed array size was changed to > 67,108,863. > although it was incorrectly documented as 16Megs.
Just curious: Why is there a limit ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
