On Apr 27, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Andrew Capon wrote: > I am looking to basically store more that 254 strings as > individually addressable items, what could I use instead of coll?

Coll doesn't have a 254 item limit.

Chris Muir cbm@well.com http://www.xfade.com

Hi Chris,

Oh thats good, the help for coll states that it can store 254 items, I tried to cut an paste the bit out but cutting is not supported in the help system.

What is the stuff after ----------begin_max5_patcher---------- about?

Thanks for your help

Andy

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He meant items for every line I think

L

> > Coll doesn't have a 254 item limit. > >

Quote: BobTheDog wrote on Sun, 27 April 2008 19:58 ---------------------------------------------------- > Hi Chris, > > Oh thats good, the help for coll states that it can store 254 items,

the help file states that it can store lists of up to 254 items ;) so this not the number of lists it can store, but the number of maximum items in each stored list.

1, 1 2 3 ... 253 254 2, 1 2 3 ... 253 254 3, 1 2 3 ... 253 254 ...................... ...................... 4999, 1 2 3 ... 253 254 5000, 1 2 3 ... 253 254

regards, kjg

Hi kjg,

Aha makes sense now, i'll use coll then.

Thanks for all the help

Andy

Quote: BobTheDog wrote on Sun, 27 April 2008 20:33 ---------------------------------------------------- > Hi kjg, > > Aha makes sense now, i'll use coll then. > > Thanks for all the help > > Andy > > ----------------------------------------------------

> What is the stuff after ----------begin_max5_patcher---------- > about?

Chris posted you an example, you can copy the whole thing, and then open it in Max using the "New from clipboard" menu item.