Max Size Of Array

[RN1]

Is there any limitation to the maximum size of an array in ASP?

Thanks

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

RN1 wrote:

Is there any limitation to the maximum size of an array in ASP?

"ASP" does not have arrays: vbscript and jscript do, and the answer may
depend on which scripting language you are using (or maybe not - I'm
feeling too lazy right now to go look it up)

In either case, the answer is Yes, and hopefully you will never try to
reach the limit. Your server will probably die before you get there :-)
.. . .

OK, I did look it up: in VBA, the UBound function returns a Long value,
so the max value it can return is 2,147,483,647 - is that big enough for
you? :-)
I can't find the corresponding info for jscript right now, but I doubt
it's relevant for you anyways.
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[Dave Anderson]

Bob Barrows [MVP] wrote:

I can't find the corresponding info for jscript right now, but I
doubt it's relevant for you anyways.

JScript arrays are associative and sparse, so they don't really have a
limit. There are practical limitations, however. For example, Array.length
is the same for (2^53)-element and (2^53+1)-element arrays
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[RN1]

On Dec 14, 11:47 pm, "Bob Barrows [MVP]" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

RN1 wrote:

Is there any limitation to the maximum size of an array in ASP?

"ASP" does not have arrays: vbscript and jscript do, and the answer may
depend on which scripting language you are using (or maybe not - I'm
feeling too lazy right now to go look it up)

In either case, the answer is Yes, and hopefully you will never try to
reach the limit. Your server will probably die before you get there :-)
. . .

OK, I did look it up: in VBA, the UBound function returns a Long value,
so the max value it can return is 2,147,483,647 - is that big enough for
you? :-)
I can't find the corresponding info for jscript right now, but I doubt
it's relevant for you anyways.

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Doesn't the max limitation depend on the server's memory size?

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

RN1 wrote:

On Dec 14, 11:47 pm, "Bob Barrows [MVP]" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>RN1 wrote:

>>Is there any limitation to the maximum size of an array in ASP?

"ASP" does not have arrays: vbscript and jscript do, and the answer
may depend on which scripting language you are using (or maybe not -
I'm feeling too lazy right now to go look it up)

In either case, the answer is Yes, and hopefully you will never try
to reach the limit. Your server will probably die before you get
there :-) . . .

OK, I did look it up: in VBA, the UBound function returns a Long
value, so the max value it can return is 2,147,483,647 - is that big
enough for you? :-)
I can't find the corresponding info for jscript right now, but I
doubt it's relevant for you anyways.

Doesn't the max limitation depend on the server's memory size?

Yes, I think I was implying that when I talked about his server dying.

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[Dave Anderson]

RN1 wrote:

Doesn't the max limitation depend on the server's memory size?

Probably not as much as the OS limitation. I would be very surprised to hear
that JScript was re-written to use 64-bit memory addressing.

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