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#34727 - 2003-01-02 07:06 PM Max Length of a Variable
ElegantSol ElegantSol Fresh Scripter Registered: 2002-11-28 Posts: 34 Loc: Cranbury, NJ, USA	I searched the Kix2001.doc manual and Kix412help.chm and can not find the maimum length of a variable. Did I miss it? _________________________ Stephen If the solution to the problem be concise and artfully or ingeniously contrived yet simple and handsome in effect, then the solution merits the adjective elegant. -- K.G. Wilson
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#34728 - 2003-01-02 07:21 PM Re: Max Length of a Variable
BrianTX BrianTX Korg Regular Registered: 2002-04-01 Posts: 895	Well, yeah.. you missed it.. from the manual: "A variant of type string can contain up to 32,000 characters. Integer variables can contain any value between 2,147,483,648 and 2,147,483,647." Brian
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#34729 - 2003-01-02 07:24 PM Re: Max Length of a Variable
Sealeopard Sealeopard KiX Master Registered: 2001-04-25 Posts: 11165 Loc: Boston, MA, USA	Brian, unfortunately slightly wrong He asked for the maximum length of the variables itself. Though I haven't seen anything definite, I would say that variable names that are longer than e.g. 30 characters might be overkill. _________________________ There are two types of vessels, submarines and targets.
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#34730 - 2003-01-02 07:24 PM Re: Max Length of a Variable
ElegantSol ElegantSol Fresh Scripter Registered: 2002-11-28 Posts: 34 Loc: Cranbury, NJ, USA	Sorry, but I meant to say the Lenght of the Nname of a variable. Steve _________________________ Stephen If the solution to the problem be concise and artfully or ingeniously contrived yet simple and handsome in effect, then the solution merits the adjective elegant. -- K.G. Wilson
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#34731 - 2003-01-02 08:09 PM Re: Max Length of a Variable
kholm kholm Korg Regular Registered: 2000-06-19 Posts: 714 Loc: Randers, Denmark	In KiX-versions prior to 4.0 this was the rules for variablenames were: Can't contain operator characters (+,-,,/,&,<,>,=) Must not exceed 14 characters. Must be unique within the same scope, which is the range from which the variable can be referenced in a script, or script segment. From KiX-version 4.0 and upwards the rule: Must not exceed 14 characters.* Is omitted from the documenteation, so I gues we will have to ask Ruud if the length of variablenames can be anything up til 32000 in KiX 4.+ ??? Until then you might consider 14 as the maximum length. I have seen somewhere in the old documentation, that you can use longer names than 14, but anything in the name after the 14’s char will be ignored. Example: $ThisIsLongChar $ThisIsLongChar2 Will both be treated as the same variable: $ThisIsLongCha -Erik
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#34732 - 2003-01-02 08:19 PM

Re: Max Length of a Variable

Les

KiX Master

Registered: 2001-06-11
Posts: 12734
Loc: fortfrances.on.ca

Well, I tested vars of various lengths between 30 and 60 chars on 4.02 on up to 4.20 and they all worked.

code:

Break on
$123456789012345678901234567890 = 'test1'
$1234567890123456789012345678901234567890 = 'test2'
$12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 = 'test3'
$123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 = 'test4'
$123456789012345678901234567890 ?
$1234567890123456789012345678901234567890 ?
$12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 ?
$123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 ?
get $_

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#34733 - 2003-01-02 10:41 PM Re: Max Length of a Variable
BrianTX BrianTX Korg Regular Registered: 2002-04-01 Posts: 895	Hmm.. I took him to mean the length of a string.. Length of the identifier is a bit different.. After some testing, I haven't found a limit to the size of variables... I tried 2000 characters and it still worked. However, everything gets EXTREMELY slow, so shorter variable names are desirable! Brian
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#34734 - 2003-01-02 11:45 PM Re: Max Length of a Variable
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	Brian, I thought you had already discovered that shorter variable names are faster - especially after you published your SORT function - the one that blew CombSort away I think short variable names can give a worth-while speed boost, especially for those types of intensive applications. -Shawn
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#34735 - 2003-01-03 01:31 AM Re: Max Length of a Variable
ElegantSol ElegantSol Fresh Scripter Registered: 2002-11-28 Posts: 34 Loc: Cranbury, NJ, USA	Thanks for the responses! I am glad I was able to fire up an interesting discussion. Perhaps the moderator should move this thread to the FAQ area because the subject is not included in any of the new documentation! Steve _________________________ Stephen If the solution to the problem be concise and artfully or ingeniously contrived yet simple and handsome in effect, then the solution merits the adjective elegant. -- K.G. Wilson
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