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Subject: Re: INP field length
From: "Steve Kinder" <[email protected]>
To: "Davidsaver, Michael" <[email protected]>, "Andrew Johnson" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:08:53 -0000
Hi David

No I don't actually see an error at the moment and things work. I really wanted to make sure I understood any limitations of this sort that exist and would limit the combined length of the DEVICE and port strings in my case. You seem to be saying that the INP string needs to be less than 80 characters. Would that be before or after macro expansion? For now I don't think either cause me a problem with a limit of 80.

Regards

Steve

----- Original Message ----- From: "Davidsaver, Michael" <[email protected]>
To: "Andrew Johnson" <[email protected]>; "Steve Kinder" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 4:29 PM
Subject: RE: INP field length


Steve,

One of the limitations on the length of INP or OUT is dbPutString in
dbStaticLib.c (search for 'string[80]').  When you reach this limit you
will see the message "dbPutString received a string that is too long".
Do you see this?

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:tech-talk-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Johnson
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 12:12 PM
To: Steve Kinder
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: INP field length

Hi Steve,

On Monday 15 March 2010 10:46:42 Steve Kinder wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply, that was what I thought. But just to clarify
my 
> specific case. I'm using StreamDevice2 and have a INP field as
follows with
> template/substitution.
>
> field(INP, "@TEST.protocol getCs($(DEVICE),C2,C3,C4) $(port) 0")
>
> If I understand things correctly, whatever the length of DEVICE and
port I
> shouldn't encounter problems. Well due to the length of the field at
least.

I just checked something else and found a 1023 character length limit
to each
input line before and after macro expansion in the parser, although I
don't
think that will affect you.

- Andrew
--
The best FOSS code is written to be read by other humans -- Harald
Welte




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