AIX 5.2

Hello Group,

What is the maximum number of characters that I can assign to a variable?

Thanks in advance.
Suhas

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On 2004-09-29, Suhas wrote:
> AIX 5.2
>
> Hello Group,
>
> What is the maximum number of characters that I can assign to a variable?

In which shell?

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Stanislaw Klekot

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sgtembe@hotmail.com (Suhas) wrote in message news:

>
> AIX 5.2
>
> Hello Group,
>
> What is the maximum number of characters that I can assign to a variable?
>

varname='v'
while :; do
varname="${varname}A"
eval "$varname="
case $? in
0) :;;
*) echo 'max var name len = '
expr "$varname" : '.*';;
esac
done

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