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Wanderer Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 68

I've been utilizing a script that takes a list delimited by commas and stores it in the Stringlist variable type in zmud. While everything works for smaller lists, I've had some problems when scaling things to be slightly larger.

Specifics: A list of ~1300 items is trucated to 1096 items in the stringlist.

Anyone happen to know of a workaround/way to fix this? Is overflowing to a second stringlist the only reasonably viable option, or is there a way to have it stored monolithically?

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:04 am

I don't think the system was ever intended to be used for lists that long. You'll probably find it to be very slow doing some operations on a list that large.

That said, I didn't have any problems making string lists 1300 items long. I used the test command #loop 1300 {#additem test {test %i}} and the list formed properly. Perhaps it's a memory issue? You might find it useful to use zMUD's database component instead.

Wanderer Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 68

Hmm. Perhaps this is the culprit?

#REGEX {(.*)} {temp=%concat( @temp, %replace( "%1", ",", "|"))} "" {disable}

(At the end of parsing, it dumps temp into a stringlist)

Using a db might be viable, but, one question... With a list, I can trigger on @somestringlist and it will match any row without needing to go through a loop to check each one manually. Is it possible to do something like this while using a db component?