I'm working on multiple projects that save very long strings of numbers onto list. I know there is a limit to the amount of characters in an item, however I can't find an exact value on the wiki.

Thanks

Kemek78 wrote:

I'm working on multiple projects that save very long strings of numbers onto list. I know there is a limit to the amount of characters in an item, however I can't find an exact value on the wiki.

Thanks

How many items a list can hold:
There is no limit to the length of an item or the amount of items a list can hold, apart from an amount sufficient to crash Scratch. However, you may not be able to save a project online if your list takes too long to upload, because Scratch will return a network error after about 30 seconds. Few lists need to contain that amount of information, but a dictionary of 350,000 English words may fail to save when 250,000 words would succeed. This is due to the list being stored twice in the JSON source.
How many characters per item a list can hold:
10240 characters, I think.

TEAMWFS wrote:

Kemek78 wrote:

I'm working on multiple projects that save very long strings of numbers onto list. I know there is a limit to the amount of characters in an item, however I can't find an exact value on the wiki.

Thanks

How many items a list can hold:
There is no limit to the length of an item or the amount of items a list can hold, apart from an amount sufficient to crash Scratch. However, you may not be able to save a project online if your list takes too long to upload, because Scratch will return a network error after about 30 seconds. Few lists need to contain that amount of information, but a dictionary of 350,000 English words may fail to save when 250,000 words would succeed. This is due to the list being stored twice in the JSON source.
How many characters per item a list can hold:
I don't know quite yet, but I'm trying to find it out with this application.

Please cite the wiki when taking from it. We know you didn't write the info about the limit above.
About the limit, it depends on what else is in your project. If you have a lot of sounds and sprites, less. This is because sb2 files have a hard-coded size limit of 50 MB. No project could test this. Simply download your file, with an empty list. Find out how many bytes. Subtract that from the max, and that is twice how long a list can be. It is stored as such:
[
“item1”,
“item2”,
“item3”
]
(x2)
With this info, you can easily calculate the max for your project.

Well, for saving lists the limit is around 2.5 megabytes(discounting other stuff) prject.json limit as @VTEAMWFS quoted, but the limit for lists populated on the go would be the power of your PC probably.

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asivi wrote:

Well, for saving lists the limit is around 2.5 megabytes(discounting other stuff) prject.json limit as @VTEAMWFS quoted, but the limit for lists populated on the go would be the power of your PC probably.

Please see my answer right above yours. Your answer is false; the limit for a project is 50 megabytes.. discounting other stuff the limit for a list would be 50 megabytes/2

Reread my response.

asivi wrote:

-Lite- wrote:

asivi wrote:

Well, for saving lists the limit is around 2.5 megabytes(discounting other stuff) prject.json limit as @VTEAMWFS quoted, but the limit for lists populated on the go would be the power of your PC probably.

Please see my answer right above yours. Your answer is false; the limit for a project is 50 megabytes.. discounting other stuff the limit for a list would be 50 megabytes/2

Reread my response.

asivi wrote:

but the limit for lists populated on the go would be the power of your PC probably

That's true for everything.

What thing is unnacurate? please quote the part exactly and how it is. Thanks.

asivi wrote:

What thing is unnacurate? please quote the part exactly and how it is. Thanks.

asivi wrote:

Well, for saving lists the limit is around 2.5 megabytes(discounting other stuff) prject.json limit as @VTEAMWFS quoted

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OK, i will give you a more reliable reference, but firstly you must to know that if you try to upload a project with a JSON file bigger than 2.5 megabytes you will not suceed, lists are saved in the JSON file among other stuff like script assets, variables, costumes, sounds, bacdrops,etc all features definition.

https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/2473166/ it is a response by @TheLogFather in other topic.

asivi wrote:

OK, i will give you a more reliable reference, but firstly you must to know that if you try to upload a project with a JSON file bigger than 2.5 megabytes you will not suceed, lists are saved in the JSON file among other stuff like script assets, variables, costumes, sounds, bacdrops,etc all features definition.

https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/2473166/ it is a response by @TheLogFather in other topic.

Oh wow, I did not know. I had been told what I repeated to you, and just internalized it. I want to apologize for possibly confusing the OP and possibly derogating you.

Don't be worried about, by discussing all of us,you and i and any other reading this topic,are learning.
Greets.

asivi wrote:

Don't be worried about, by discussing all of us,you and i and any other reading this topic,are learning.
Greets.

I want to thank you a lot. I had faulty code in one of my Scratchblocks manipulation libraries assuming the limit was what I mentioned above.

I actually recently found the saving problem when I tried to make a project with lots of words for a whitelist. I had to use the offline editor to save the project and upload it to Scratch.

Hi @awesome-llama let me suggest to import such list as an string and then split it and go adding to a list, it could take a while depending of the final list size and the amount of characters in such long string and the power of your PC.
An example: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/167222250/

asivi wrote:

Hi @awesome-llama let me suggest to import such list as an string and then split it and go adding to a list, it could take a while depending of the final list size and the amount of characters in such long string and the power of your PC.
An example: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/167222250/

That would allow you possibly twice as much room, as variables don't have to be stored twice.
I am thinking of encoding the data in images, as the images are not limited like the project.json. I might make a prototype soon

-Lite- wrote:

asivi wrote:

Hi @awesome-llama let me suggest to import such list as an string and then split it and go adding to a list, it could take a while depending of the final list size and the amount of characters in such long string and the power of your PC.
An example: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/167222250/

That would allow you possibly twice as much room, as variables don't have to be stored twice.
I am thinking of encoding the data in images, as the images are not limited like the project.json. I might make a prototype soon

It looks sounds great, i hope you suceed.

asivi wrote:

-Lite- wrote:

asivi wrote:

Hi @awesome-llama let me suggest to import such list as an string and then split it and go adding to a list, it could take a while depending of the final list size and the amount of characters in such long string and the power of your PC.
An example: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/167222250/

That would allow you possibly twice as much room, as variables don't have to be stored twice.
I am thinking of encoding the data in images, as the images are not limited like the project.json. I might make a prototype soon

It looks sounds great, i hope you suceed.

My biggest concern is the compression.

Let me suggest you go to advanced topics in order to get tips or advices about, sadly i can't help you because my lack of enough instrunction.

@Kemek78, sorry for these unrelated responses. Hopefully you are a sympathetic guy.