row length restrictions?

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Laurence Anthony

row length restrictions?

Post by Laurence Anthony »

I am doing some text processing in Textpad using files with rows of characters several thousand long. After the rows go over a certain lengh, Textpad starts saying the files do not contain ASCII characters and refuses to open them correctly. Has anybody else experienced this problem, and if so, do they know how to solve it.
Andreas

RE: row length restrictions?

Post by Andreas »

I think I remember a time when Textpad was not able to process lines longer than 4096 characters. TP offered to break these long lines or to stop loading.

But as I just tested it works with lines longer than 100 000 characters.
And I do not get any warnings.
Which version of TP do you use?

Andreas
Laurence Anthony

RE: row length restrictions?

Post by Laurence Anthony »

I'm using Textpad 4.4.0.

Thinking about it, I remember a time when I was using Textpad and this
was never a problem. Maybe, the files I was using at the time were short
enough, or an upgrade has introduced a new problem.

Laurence
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RE: row length restrictions?

Post by moderator »

Sorry to hear you are having problems with your files in TextPad. Please can you fill in the support form:

http://www.textpad.com/support/index.html

It asks a few questions regarding your systems set up which will help me in trying to find a solution. Please let me know the exact wording of the error message. Is your file Unicode?

Kind Regards

Heidi-Marie
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