PrintN limit

[freedimension]

I had a hard time finding a bug with my pbAPM Lib, only to find out, that it's not even a bug of mine. I wanted to PrintN very large numbers with about 1000 digits but it always printed only about 250.
Now my question, is this a limitation of PureBasic or of the way Windows handles consoles (i.e. it can only handle lines of up to 250 Characters)? Just wondering.

[Kale]

Hmmm.. here, i too seem to have a 250 char limit on PrintN().

[blueznl]

that's somewhere in the docs iirc

[oldefoxx]

PrintN() limits you to 250 characters to print at one time. However, your can have strings within PV that are much longer. All you need to do is parse a string and print a portion of it with print(), until you reach the end of the string, and print the remainder using PrintN() so that you have a return at the end of the print. I might suggest that as part of your effort to parse the initial string, you consider the option to check for screen width (80 character count), and back along the string for a "natural" character sepearator. such as space, tab, comma, semi-colon, colon, or whatever and see if you can break the line at that point. and resume checking the string from that point on. For instance:

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;assume s$ is a long string
parse1=1
Repeat
   parse2=parse1+80
   If parse2>Len(s$)
      goto bypass3
   EndIf
   parse3=parse2
   Repeat
     parse3-1
     If parse2<=parse1
       GoTo bypass2
     EndIf
     Select Mid(s$,parse3,1)
     Case " "
     Case "."
     Case ","
     Case "/"
     Case "\"
     Case Chr(9)
     Case ":"
     Case ";"
     Default
       GoTo bypass1
     EndSelect
     parse2=parse3+1
     GoTo bypass2
bypass1:
   Forever
bypass2:
   Print(Mid(s$,parse1,parse2-parse1)
   parse1=parse2
Forever
bypass3:
PrintN(Mid(s$,parse1,parse2-parse1)
End