On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Sara Pollita Golemon wrote: > User complains that maximum length of a line used by fscanf is too short > (he has lines > 1600 chars). Looking at file.h I agree (it's only 512). > > The user requested two options: > > 1) Add an optional length field. > No way to do that without breaking parameter list. :(
We can't really do that, users will get pissed :) > > 2) Increase to a larger arbitrary number. > This simply has the problem that it may prove too short eventually as well. Yeah, IMO it doesn't solve anything. > > Plus I came up with a third option: > > 3) Create an .ini entry to specify the maximum length used. > I think this has the best overall return on it. I don't like us adding a new ini entry for this, I think we should try another option: 4) Make sure we can use fscanf on a dynamically sized buffer. This will definitely the hardest solution, but also the most beautiful one. Derick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
