Hi Richard,

Le mar. 18 oct. 2022 à 18:30, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsha...@gmail.com>
a écrit :

> Hi folks,
>
> How do I squeeze more than 240 chars into a string field?
>

You can't currently.  As seen in epan/proto.h, you have the
ITEM_LABEL_LENGTH define set to 240 and that exists since ages.


> I am trying to fix an issue with the beamforming matrices for 802.11ax
> and 802.11be and maybe 802.11ac.
>

I guess you refer to https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18504


> When I try to assemble all of a single SCIDX, I get this:
> ----------------------------
> S [truncated]: SCIDX: -122, phi11:57, phi21:34, phi31:59, phi41:8,
> phi51:52, phi61:18, phi71:14, psi21:10, psi31:8, psi41:1, psi51:5,
> psi61:5, psi71:3, psi81:4, phi22:33, phi32:22, phi42:22, phi52:10,
> phi62:41, phi72:59, psi32:8, psi42:3,
> ------------------------------
>
> Why is there an arbitrary limit? Is it because I am working with 3.4.8?
>

No, it has been like this for 23 years according to Git blame.
Maybe it's time to display this matrix differently (with several lines?)
instead of appending all those infos in a single line?

Best regards,
Pascal.
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