Re: reading a file >32Kb
Re: reading a file >32Kb
- Subject: Re: reading a file >32Kb
- From: Helmut Fuchs <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 22:18:26 +0100
At 16:03 Uhr -0500 13.03.2003, James Burns wrote:
This is a disappointment. Any thoughts on whether this will
be changed? It's MUCH easier to search to a string in an arbitrarily
large container, rather than have to do this sort of dance...
Does "never" sound too pessimistic?
Is it that the "read" command that doesn't deal with >32MB
files, or is it that variables can't hold more than 32Mb? In either
case, how can I deal with having to hold (and search for stuff, even
using delimiters) a large file in a variable?
No. The variables do fine.
If I understand correctly, the culprit lies in the International Text
Toolbox, which never was intended to handle large amounts of text on
its own. The idea behind it was to allow applications to handle text
in an international savvy manner (e.g. sorting orders, diacritical
marks, whitespaces a.s.o.). So if you wrote a word processor you
could concentrate on the big picture, handing the messy details over
to International Text.
It shouldn't be a very big deal to implement workarounds that feed
larger strings to this Toolbox in little bits.
File a bug! But then again. AppleScript is low priority anyway...
(like UI and internationalization - brushed metal look any one?).
Best regards,
Helmut
P.S. Even if doesn't sound like this: I kinda like AppleScript. Even
Apple! I wish Apple would too...
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