Re: reading a file >32Kb
Re: reading a file >32Kb
- Subject: Re: reading a file >32Kb
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:50:00 +1100
On 14/3/03 6:23 AM +1000, James Burns, email@hidden, wrote:
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I'm experiencing a weird problem, and I'm wondering if it's a bug (or a
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weird throwback to the old 32kb text limit).
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What I'm doing is:
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1/ Reading a text file.
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2/ Testing if it contains a string
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3/ If so, do some stuff, otherwise, pop up a dialog.
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The weird thing is that I can see that the file contains the string,
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but fails the test. Then I noticed that the file is 42K and I thought,
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"Don't tell me that I can't read a file larger than 32Kb into a
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variable!!"
I won't tell you that because it's not true. However, AppleScript's
comparison operators fail with >32K, so the error is appearing in this line:
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if temp contains "SaveRGBImagesPrefix" then -- and my >32Kb file DOES
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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