jbv wrote:
The only issue I've ever seen with the sort command turned out to be
documented: the string library used for it requires that none of the
lines exceeds 64k (65,535 characters). When sorting lines in which one
or more is longer than 64k the results will be unpredictable and likely
confusing. I know, I've seen 'em -- sure confused the heck out of me
until I learned this limit. :)
Thanks for the info... is it documented in Rev ?
I don't remember reading it anywhere...
Not per se, or at least nothing connected with the "sort container"
command that I could find.
Given how big 64k is it rarely comes up in common use; I found out about
it from a support email from Scott Raney after one of my customers was
having an inexplicable issue with WebMerge.
It's worth noting that for all customers I have and all the strange
things they do with WebMerge (I have one customer go generates 300,000
pages at a time with it) the 64k-per-line limit only came up once in the
three years I've been selling the product.
In that customer's case we were able to recommend a better workflow for
them: they had one field that contained short stories, but it made
their work more flexible to simply leave the short story in a separate
file and reference the file from their database, allowing them to edit
the story file without going into the database.
In recent years I've been using lists as RAM-based database tables with
good results, and haven't had any record get even close to 64k as long
as I provide support for referencing external files for things better
suited for those.
Not all lists will lend themselves to that, but when they do you get to
keep enjoying the simplicity and efficiency of chunk expressions for
everything else, and a pretty good sort command. :)
--
Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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