Re: Maximum length input line

>>>>> "PS" == Peter Scott <[email protected]> writes:


  PS> No, the point is not that I want truncated lines but that I want to say 
  PS> "toss/leave back the excess over 100,000 characters when I do a <INPUT>, 
  PS> for I am sure that a line longer than that would be an error of some 
  PS> kind."  Yes, Perl can handle many more characters than that before it 
  PS> starts to have problems, but so what.  Maybe I have scripts where I would 
  PS> set it to 1_000_000_000 but that would still make sense.


i will add this to the aio (advanced I/O) rfc. i have to get back to
writing that set. someone kick me to do it.

uri

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