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Re: There's a length limit to AppleScripts (AS Editor 1.7)?
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Re: There's a length limit to AppleScripts (AS Editor 1.7)?


  • Subject: Re: There's a length limit to AppleScripts (AS Editor 1.7)?
  • From: "Donald S. Hall" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 21:47:03 -0700

I believe the Script Editor has a 32K character limit for the source text.
You could break your script up into several different scripts in different
files to get around this.

Don
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Donald S. Hall, Ph.D.
Apps & More Software Design, Inc.
http://www.theboss.net/appsmore
email@hidden

> Just went to add another bit of code to my browser-cache cleaner script (for
> NetScape 6.2.1) and received the following error on trying to paste the code
> into the existing script:
> Could not insert text because the text would be longer than its maximum
> possible length.
>
> Say what?
> Does anyone know if this is a document line length limit or a character limit?
> Is there an obvious way around it (such as dividing up the code into multiple
> scripts and then having a master script run them)?
>
> Thanks
> =-= Marc


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