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 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dar Scott > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 9:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
