Hi Moritz,
there is a limit to Java Strings, their maximum length is 2^31-1 = 2147483647 characters. ImageJ is Java-based, so it can't go beyond that.
The line in
http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/notes.html was just meant to say that the previous limit of a few thousand characters was removed.
Michael
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On Jun 29, 2015, at 11:30, Moritz Kirschmann wrote:
> Dear mailing list members,
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> I get an error when using file.openAsString to open a tiff file of 3.8 GB
> running on win7. (I use it to extract metadata which is stored at the end of
> the file.)
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> The error reads: "Error null in line XX".
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> With smaller files (800MB) it works like a charm. Also opening the 3.8GB
> tiff file as an image just works.
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> On
http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/notes.html I found the info:
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> "1.47j 15 February 2013
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> [.]
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> The File.openAsString() macro function no longer has a file size limit."
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> Is there an implicit limit or is this a bug?
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> Thank you for your help in advance!
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> Best regards, Moritz
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