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maximum number of items in a collection and/or array
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ThatRickGuy
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I supose there could be a limit. Int max (32676) maybe? Long int? Unsigned int? in any case, it's well beyond 240.
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This is a tougher question than it appears.
Both the Array class and the collection classes have a 32-bit indexer, so that would say a max of 4gb number of items. You would probably run into memory issues long before that limit.
But the Array class also has a LongLength property, which returns a 64-bit value. This represents the length in all dimensions of the array.
Neither storage method will have a problem with only 240 items. What will help you decide which to use is how you plan on accessing the data once it's in one of them. If you plan on accessing it by ordinal (index), Array is good. If you plan on accessing it by a key of some kind, then a collection (HashTable, etc) would be good.
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Both the Array class and the collection classes have a 32-bit indexer, so that would say a max of 4gb number of items. You would probably run into memory issues long before that limit.
But the Array class also has a LongLength property, which returns a 64-bit value. This represents the length in all dimensions of the array.
Neither storage method will have a problem with only 240 items. What will help you decide which to use is how you plan on accessing the data once it's in one of them. If you plan on accessing it by ordinal (index), Array is good. If you plan on accessing it by a key of some kind, then a collection (HashTable, etc) would be good.
CHip H.
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