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Subject: RE: How long can $_ be?
Is there some limit in how long the contents of the variable $_ can
be?
Not that I'm aware of, no.
I encounter this problem on Solaris machines running Perl 5.005. On
Windows with Perl 5.6.1. no such problem was encountered.
What could
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*From the command line I start the script with perl script.pl. Now I
*have to enter some text. I just enter any text, either by typing or by
*cutting and pasting. I do not enter any strange characters or
*newlines. I just type in some text. I even
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w.deSubject: RE: How long can
Is there some limit in how long the contents of the variable $_ can
be?
Not that I'm aware of, no.
I encounter this problem on Solaris machines running Perl 5.005.
On Windows with Perl 5.6.1. no such problem was encountered.
What could cause the problem?
I suppose it might be a a
12, 2002 9:06 AM
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Subject: RE: How long can $_ be?
Is there some limit in how long the contents of the variable $_ can
be?
Not that I'm aware of, no.
I encounter this problem on Solaris machines running Perl 5.005.
On Windows with Perl 5.6.1
There is no limit on the length of a scalar in Perl other than the amount of
memory you have. It is possible that it is splitting the newline because
you are using a multi-byte character set, or the global variable $/ (input
record seperator) was changed in the script, or you are working with
