Android Question Maximum length of a variable in b4A

[beelze69]

Hi !

Sorry if I sound too basic.

What is the maximum length of a variable in b4A ?

Note: I tried giving this declaration like
Dim strThisWillHoldTheItemDescription as String

- and the Compiler did not give me any error..

I just want to know what is the maximum length that is allowed

Thanks..

 

[emexes]

I wonder why you would like to use a variable name that is thousands of characters long.

Perhaps programming payment is by number of code characters rather than code lines.

 

[emexes]

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Lol, gotta love ground truth but you've got me wondering: are all characters of the name significant? Early BASICs were limited to one or two significant letters, eg Fred$ and Frank$ were the same variable. I vaguely remember 31 characters being a limit somewhere too, might have been TurboPascal. Is your test variable actually a separate variable to say:

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[emexes]

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' Add reflector code to get variable name

' Add code to replace underscores with whitespace and whatnot

Sorry for derailing the thread.

That reminds me of a guy years ago who compressed supposedly non-compressible data by saving some of the data in the compressed-data filename (or perhaps filenames - if the compressor output can be multiple files, then you could compress any amount of data down to any arbitrary total file size eg even a single byte, if the filesystem allows zero-length files).

I feel like that happened in a magazine competition or challenge for readers to submit their best compression algorithm.

Say, that wasn't you, was it?!?!

 

[emexes]

That reminds me of a guy years ago who compressed supposedly non-compressible data by saving some of the data in the compressed-data filename (or perhaps filenames - if the compressor output can be multiple files, then you could compress any amount of data down to any arbitrary total file size eg even a single byte, if the filesystem allows zero-length files).

I feel like that happened in a magazine competition or challenge for readers to submit their best compression algorithm.

Was probably this:

The $5000 Compression Challenge

> I am curious, though, and I am not trying to get any sort of angle on you here, what
> brilliant idea have you come up with that makes you think you can compress arbitrary
> data? Whether or whatever you disclose won't affect this challenge and I will live
> up to my end of the bargain regardless.

Wait and see...

Patrick