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Hi again, Has anyone encountered an issue on KDE Plasma 6 where LiveCode seems to trigger a crash and restart of the shell? Like the taskbar, desktop and such disappear and are restarted for doing seemingly normal stuff in LiveCode? I'm running LiveCode 10.0.0 and doing stuff as simple as opening a...

And I always thought that most reasonably educated people were aware of those things. Means nothing to me, although I would point out that generalities like "most", "reasonably", "educated", mean different things to different people. I have never adhered to the belief that education stops at some p...

Please tell us what exactly you have tried so far. Um... I tried using the set the text of field command but it didn't work. <chuckle> As Klaus's examples demonstrate, "put" is the most commonly used to set the value of a variable, put text into a field, put data into a file, display text in the me...

Low code news? I guess since I didn't know there was any such thing, it explains my missing the picture, but why would the source of the picture mean anything? I would congratulate you on knowing more about the subtle differences between Russian and Bulgarian languages than I do, though that would n...

Err, but 18 months later? I wasn't here for a long LONG time (and really still am not), however, I did not resurrect this thread and bring it to my own attention, the post that did that was made by the OP, 1 day before my reply. Re: Copy the Last Line of a .txt file by trags3 » Tue Mar 11, 2025 3:4...

To accomplish this I want to read the last line in the appropriate file and populate the card with the data. If the goal is simply to get the last line of a file, assuming you have the path to the file already in a variable, all you should need is put the last line of url("File:" & myFilePath) into...

Bogs. I created a list of 100 million lines, each line containing five chars separated by tabs, about one GB. To extract the last two items from each line into a new line in a new variable took 46 seconds. This on an M2 Mac Mini. Craig I suspect a lot of the delay in the testing bogs did might have...

Bogs, I created a list of 100 million lines, each line containing five chars separated by tabs, about one GB. To extract the last two items from each line into a new line in a new variable took 46 seconds. This on an M2 Mac Mini. Craig I don't know that an m2 mac mini qualifies as a 'severely limit...

I suspect it did not grow to that size in a jump heh, but likely over a long LONG period of time, and possibly through several different programmers such as the OP being the latest. That it was allowed to grow to such a size tells me that no one thought to break it down into smaller subsets, which i...

I was wondering what sort of dataSet was so poorly formed that the "items" within each of its rows was so mangled. You can see this problem being made every time you see a program that doesn't test for input (if you can form a test for the input, if you can't you can still delimit it properly) or, ...

Sparkout <sic> But I just ran a test with a variable with ten million lines, and the two actions take the same time. It occurs to me that this post adds nothing to the discussion. I disagree, I think it added considerable value, since you actually tested it instead of making assumptions, and then r...

So: obviously itemDelimiter and columnDelimiter work differently. Well, they delimit different things, certainly. There is a rowDelimiter as well and it delimits... wait for it... ROWS !!! :twisted: In all those posts above, I do not believe I posted the link to the data set I used, here that is if...

Hey bogs, why would you update the field like that in the loop? A) field uodates are a hefty overhead B) you have two statements that put data into an indexed line, which means that twice within each loop the engine has to count through to the index to update each. Surely a more comparative test wo...

Since I was bored, I got a (relatively) large dataset (53+ meg.) I was pretty sure was *not* corrupted and ran it through some of the different ways to get the result you were looking for. The dataset came from the government and had about 17 columns all told. The code for the array method used: on ...