Topic: Internal error 23 (1 of 3), Read 99 times Conf: Error messages, Crashes From: Harvey Finberg Date: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:44 AM I am creating a set of tab-delimited records from an Oracle database. Three of the fields contain embedded newline characters, both and , that need to be removed from the output file. Using pattern matching with |N --> Null removes all newline characters and I am left with a single record approximately 1.5 MB long. I can recognize what should be the start of each record and tried to insert the newlines using the regular expression {[0-9][0-9]+\t99\t} --> \N\1. Unfortunately, clicking OK results in an immediate Internal error 23. This replacement works with smaller files. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Topic: Internal error 23 (2 of 3), Read 100 times Conf: Error messages, Crashes From: Ted Green Date: Friday, June 13, 2003 12:07 PM >Using pattern matching with |N --> Null removes all newline characters and I am left with a single record approximately 1.5 MB long. > >I can recognize what should be the start of each record and tried to insert the newlines using the regular expression {[0-9][0-9]+\t99\t} --> \N\1. Unfortunately, clicking OK results in an immediate Internal error 23. This replacement works with smaller files. Regular expressions only work with a maximum line length of about 100,000 bytes. You might try this: 1. Use your RE to make the records with e.g. <<>> 2. Delete the existing newlines. 3. Use pattern matching to replace <<>> with a Newline (|N) In general, removing all newlines is likely to cause trouble. Ted.

Topic: Internal error 23 (3 of 3), Read 115 times Conf: Error messages, Crashes From: Ted Green Date: Monday, September 06, 2004 01:40 PM In VEDIT 6.11, the error message INTERNAL ERROR 23 has been changed to: Line too long for Regular Expression I originally made it an internal error because I though we would soon fix it, but for the time being we will limit regular expressions to a max line length of about 100,000 chars. Ted.