Richard,
It has been a while...
I went back and checked my records. The problem (probably related to
the number of characters per line) was thousands of NULL characters
in the variable. When I removed the NULLs, everything worked fine.
So now I always trap for NULLs before doing a sort - and have not had
a repeat of this problem.
By the way, we are not sure where the NULLS came from. Our best guess
is that it has something to do with pasting text from a word
processor into one of our notes fields.
I, too, would like to know the new limit. Mark?
Paul Looney
On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Paul Looney wrote:
I have had the opposite happen.
On a large variable, sorting removed lines.
Rev 3.0, OS X 10.5
If memory serves, that was the result of a limitation of the sort
command where it could only be used reliably on data in which no
single line exceeded 65,535 chars.
According to the v3.5 Engine Change Log, that was fixed in v3.5:
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5932>
Unfortunately the current limit is not noted in the docs for the
Sort command, nor in that report, so I don't know exactly what it
is in the latest version. But 64k of text was a lot for a single
line, so whatever it's been raised to should be plenty for most
common tasks.
Timothy's report of the trailing blank line may be a regression
error which had been marked as "fixed" in the 3.5 Engine Change Log:
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7809>
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Richard Gaskin
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