IS THERE MAXIMUM LINE LENGTH?

TMILLER · Post by **TMILLER** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:09 am

Hi,
I was trying to edit a data file that was really long and noticed that a lot of it got cut off. Fortunately I could afford to lose some of the end data but now I'm worried about future projects. Is there a maximum line length in TextPad? Or do I need to set anything in preferences?

Thanks,
Terry

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:02 am

The maximum line length seems to be 33554429, that is, 2**25 - 3 (32M - 3). But TextPad becomes unusably slow well before you get anywhere near that figure.

If you ask TextPad to edit a file with lines longer than that it politely asks you if it should split them into 33554429-byte lines.