: : How many strings can I put in a TStringList object? Is this limited, such as for example the ListBox?
: In Delphi there is no limit for a StringList, not for the amount of string-items nor for the
: length of each string.
: But Windows will complain about "out of resources" at a certain point. Testing showed us that the maximum
: number of items is a bit over 60 million with Delphi 2006 on a Windows XP system. The length
: of each stringlist item seems to have no influence on this maximum, we tested even with
: strings of 10 million characters (!) and we were able to stuff several gigabytes into
: a stringlist.
: Earlier, on a Win98 system, we found that Windows gave an error when items * itemlength
: was a bit over 16 MB, so that's about 16 million items of 1 character each, or 1 million
: items of 16 characters, or...
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