[ksh93-integration-discuss] Maximum string length in ksh?

[Roland Mainz]

David Korn wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Maximum string length in ksh?
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> > ksh88 in Solaris is slightly different, AFAIK there is an array size
> > limit of 4096 entries and string length was AFAIK limited, too (but I am
> > not sure... maybe I am wrong...).
> 
> ksh88 had an array size limit of 511 or 1023 which was increased to 4095 when
> ksh93 was first released.   Also, ksh93 supports associative arrays.
> For an associative array, the subscript is a string rather than an arithmetic
> expression.  There is no limit to the number of elements in an associate array.
> 
> In ksh93n (released in 2002), the indexed array size was changed to 67,108,863.
> although it was incorrectly documented as 16Megs.

Just curious: Why is there a limit ?

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Roland

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