Re: Limiting String Length

[Chas Owens]

On 21 Jun 2001 14:39:47 -0400, Chas Owens wrote:
> How about
> 
> use constant MAXSTRLENGTH => 4096;
> 
> substr($string, MAXSTRLENGTH - 1, -1) = '' unless(length($strlen) <
> MAXSTRLENGTH);
> 
<snip />

Oops, let me ammend that to

use constant MAXSTRLENGTH => 4096;

substr($str, MAXSTRLENGTH - 1) unless (length($str) < MAXSTRLENGTH);

Sleep dep sucks.

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