Forums mIRC Help Variable Limit

I was just wondering, what's the limit on the amount of variables you can have, and the highest character count in a variable? The other day, it seems that mirc started randomly removing some of my variables :\

max characters in a var is around 941 but it reduces the longer your var name is, 941 is for a /set %x which means its got 8 charactes in front of the text, so its like any line maxes out at 949 to 950 characters.

number of vars allowed i beleive is unlimited, HOWEVER the script editor truncs the list at 64k i beleive and well loose any after that if u alter any in it. If u dont look in the vars section of the editor its unlimited (i think)

The number of variables is limited to 64k for Global variables, and local variables are limited to the amount of ram on your system.

Note that 64k includes the name and value of each variable

What will happen once you pass that 940-950 limit?

The remaining data is truncated. Anything that isn't placed into the variable because of the limit being reached will be lost. To avoid that, use binvars for variables you know will be long.

Pffft where did you come up with that one from, i have more than 64k in one of mine all the time?!?!?!?!


As to limited by your ram, thats an outside source of limitation so i did not place it into the mix but ill correct my statement for errors.

The number of vars allowed i believe is unlimited at least untell you run outa ram (real or virtual i dont known), there is no 64k limit.
The script editor doesnt display all vars well if u have a large number of them around 500Kb+

If u dont look in the vars section of the editor its all vars appear savede in the remote.ini perfectly finely.

That 64k limit is old, it hasn't been that way for many versions,
since 5.9 I believe. The limit was with the script editor, if you
were viewing a script (including variables) that was over
64k in the script editor, and clicked the ok button, it was
truncated at 64k.

I remember that... it got annoying.

I'm curious if a new version of mIRC will allow reading ini files past 64k. If the variables ini file can be read past 64k, why not others? We can already write past 64k... reading could be helpful. Of course, I usually am not using INI files very much anymore, but it would still be nice.