List Length Maximum

[Jacob Wall]

I was working on a tool to read text files when I encountered an issue with files larger than 10000 Bytes. Basically I was doing this:

Code:

fsize:=AFilesB("name.txt");
fcontent:=AFilesB("name.txt",0,fsize); // fails if fsize>10000
fcontent:=CHAR(fcontent);

This was the only way I found so far to read text files in, and it worked well until I tested a file larger than 10000 Bytes. After some more investigation and troubleshooting it appears to be caused by a limitation of how long list objects can be. Can someone confirm that?

I have a workaround, reading the file in 9999 Byte chunks and assembling the components of the string afterwards, but was surprised to find this limitation. (AFilesB returns a list of character codes for the string.)