array limits

[Kenneth Brody]

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Kenneth Brody wrote:
> 
> Joe Chasan wrote:
> >
> > While debugging some wierd array problem recently, I checked docs and
> > nowhere do I see array limit specifications.
> >
> > How large an array byte-wise?  How many elements?  How many arrays per
> > process table?
> >
> > I thought I rembered seeing at least size limit way back, but can't
> > find it in 5.0 docs.
> >
> > Anyone have that info?
> 
> (From memory, so it's possible that I'm wrong...)
> 
> There is a limit of 32K-1 array elements, and each field is limited
> to 32K-1 in length.  In other words:  "DIM array(32767)(32767,*)".
> 
> Back in 16-bit days, when things were limited to 64K each, the limit
> on arrays was approximately 64K/12 or about 5,460 elements.  Fields
> were still 32K-1 each.

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