BIM Coordinator Program (INT) April 22, 2024
Find the next step in your career as a Graphisoft Certified BIM Coordinator!
Libraries & objects
About Archicad and BIMcloud libraries, their management and migration, objects and other library parts, etc.

GDL string size limit

TomWaltz
Participant
I'm trying to read a text file, and it seems as though I am limited to 255 characters. Lovely. I even looked it up in the manual, and confirmed this.

Is there a way around this? (UGH!!! Feels like I'm back using 8.3 filenames!!)
Tom Waltz
5 REPLIES 5
Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
Array.
One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.6, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
TomWaltz
Participant
Karl, why is it you always have bad news for me? 🙂
Tom Waltz
Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
TomWaltz wrote:
Karl, why is it you always have bad news for me? 🙂
One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.6, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Vitruvius
Contributor
I only opened this thread because I misread it as a 'G-string' limit.....

How disappointing.
Cameron Hestler, Architect



AC 24 & 25 (3011) / MacMini i7-8700B @ 3.2 GHz / 32GB Ram / 512GB SSD

LG Ultrafine 4K monitor 22" & 27”

Mac OS 11.6 Big Sur
Rob
Graphisoft
Graphisoft
Vitruvius,
I share your disappointment.
::rk
Learn and get certified!