Pasted-in NULL characters can also train wreck the GLX2 script editor. I use Tex-Edit (not Textedit) for quick text cleaning. I've seen text from a database serving Wordpress where users had pasted in NULLs with their text, not to mention curly quotes, etc.
------------------------- Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://barncard.com 2009/7/2 Paul Looney <supp...@ahsomme.com> > 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> >> >> -- >> Richard Gaskin >> Fourth World >> Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com >> Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> use-revolution@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution