MikroTik

I find the current 4096 byte variable limit crippling, is there any plans to increase this?

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Bump. See for instance http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php ... 05#p538223

In my opinion a more sensible approach would be to introduce the concept of file open (with resulting file handle)
and read line from open file (from filehandle, to variable) so a loop can be written that reads a file line by line
and it can be processed line by line.
With this construct the 4096 byte limit will normally not be any problem.

This is very good approach. I would like it too.

In my opinion a more sensible approach would be to introduce the concept of file open (with resulting file handle)
and read line from open file (from filehandle, to variable) so a loop can be written that reads a file line by line
and it can be processed line by line.

That would only help if the handle approach:

1. was abstracted to any form of streaming (be it a file, network or memory stream, the latter for instance to allow for a varDump function to work)
2. could be specified the line termination (Windows, Mac, Unix, and others)
3. could write as well as read from a handle

--jeroen