string length

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Mr Brine

(Posted 2004) [#1]

how long can the longest string be?

Mr Brine

soja	(Posted 2004) [#2]

I believe Blitz stores string length as an integer, so it should be something like 2^32 (4 billion +) characters.

(Of course long before you reached that limitation, you'd probably have run out of memory...)

Mr Brine

(Posted 2004) [#3]

cheerz man

Kanati

(Posted 2004) [#4]

I thought blitz had a limit of 64k on strings........

Mr Brine

(Posted 2004) [#5]

I'll have to try a test

xlsior

(Posted 2004) [#6]

I thought blitz had a limit of 64k on strings

No, they are pretty much just limited to the amount of available memory you have.

Andy_A

(Posted 2004) [#7]

I believe string length is limited to 2^31-1 characters in length since Blitz does not support unsigned integers. You can conceivably create a string this large. Windows would begin to start using virtual memory (hard disk) once available physical RAM was exhausted. The other possibility is that Blitz implements it's own a memory management routines internally, which would be known only by Mark and those with enough free time and patience to test the limits.