Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!jamesth
From: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: 32 K limit on field size in HC 1.2 and 2.0
Message-ID: <57849@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 90 16:12:43 GMT
References: <7374@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <7374@umd5.umd.edu> pevans@umd5.umd.edu (Peter Evans) writes:
|I have just come face-to-face with the 32K (or there about) limit
|on the amount of material that can be stored in a field.  The
|application is that I am reading raw data from a text file into a
|field and then doing various data analysis procedures on this.

There is no limit on how much you can put in a variable,
so you can read the data into a variable.

|Does anyone know of any utilities to get around this limitation eg
|reading text into a number of fields and then have that appear as a
|one big field?

No.

|Does HC 2.0 have a similar limit on field length.

Yes.

|Thanks for any assistance,
|
|Peter Evans

James Thiele -- microsoft!jamesth