Re: reading a file >32Kb
Re: reading a file >32Kb
- Subject: Re: reading a file >32Kb
- From: James Burns <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:12:25 -0500
I'm sorry, I'm a moron. I got my Mb mixed up with my Kb. (see below)
Yep, but I said 32Mb, not K.
To make sure that I wasn't mistaken with my comments above, I just
created a rather large text file with the following specs:
-- BBEdit says number of lines: 244,831
-- BBEdit says number of characters: 23,182,730
-- Finder says size is: 22.1MB (23,184,440 bytes)
Yeah, but again, that's under 32Mb
You're right, I'm confused... I blame the US Government for not
promoting the metric system...
Shane Stanley (and others...) figured it out:
On 14/3/03 6:23 AM +1000, James Burns, email@hidden, wrote:
I'm experiencing a weird problem, and I'm wondering if it's a bug (or a
weird throwback to the old 32kb text limit).
What I'm doing is:
1/ Reading a text file.
2/ Testing if it contains a string
3/ If so, do some stuff, otherwise, pop up a dialog.
The weird thing is that I can see that the file contains the string,
but fails the test. Then I noticed that the file is 42K and I thought,
"Don't tell me that I can't read a file larger than 32Kb into a
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:
if temp contains "SaveRGBImagesPrefix" then -- and my >32Kb file DOES
--
Shane Stanley, email@hidden
So it's the "contains" operator that fails...
Thanks, everyone...
-----
James Burns
http://www.jamesburnsdesign.com
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