• Open Menu Close Menu
  • Apple
  • Shopping Bag
  • Apple
  • Mac
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Watch
  • TV
  • Music
  • Support
  • Search apple.com
  • Shopping Bag
 

Lists

Open Menu Close Menu
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Lists hosted on this site
  • Email the Postmaster
  • Tips for posting to public mailing lists
Re: Maximum list size [was Re: Sifting a list sans loop]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Maximum list size [was Re: Sifting a list sans loop]


  • Subject: Re: Maximum list size [was Re: Sifting a list sans loop]
  • From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 01:02:07 +1300

on 9/2/02 11:21 PM, Luc Naets at email@hidden wrote:

> At the end of January a thread started about the length of lists. It broke
> around 4060+ items. The problem is when you do a very simple splitting of a
> long text with the command
>
> set mText to (characters 1 to 5000 of mFullText) as string
>
> I get that stack overflow error
>
> Is this bug going to get fixed or do we have to split our result into
> partial lists that are smaller that breaking point of around 4000 items?
>
> ? Another question
> one about coercion
> under applescript 1.6 it worked to coerce styled text to a clear string with
> the command
>
> set mClearString to string mStyledText
>
> under 1.8 or 1.7 it stopped working.
> Can somebody tell me how I can do this

I don't know about AS versions Luc but Akua offers it.

_____________________________ Andy
_______________________________________________
applescript-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

References: 
 >Re: Maximum list size [was Re: Sifting a list sans loop] (From: Luc Naets <email@hidden>)

  • Prev by Date: Re: question on 'property'
  • Next by Date: Re: Subroutine that works only on the 1st run
  • Previous by thread: Re: Maximum list size [was Re: Sifting a list sans loop]
  • Next by thread: Re: Maximum list size [was Re: Sifting a list sans loop]
  • Index(es):
    • Date
    • Thread