--- Chuck Ivy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got a simple message board script that I cobbled together. It
> seems to have been the target of some abuse, though.
>
> The latest patch I'd like to apply to the code would be limiting the
> length of a message posted to, say, 4096 characters.
>
> Now, looking up the substring function, it looks like if the original
>
> string were less than the size of my substring, it would pad my
> variable
> until it was 4096 characters.
>
> Would a regex be better? Matching for up to 4096 characters and
> replacing the string with $1?
>
> I recall some programming languages treat strings as arrays of
> characters. Is there a quick perl function or variable that
> represents
> the length of a string? I didn't see any obvious entries in the index
> of
> Programming Perl, but I may have been looking in the wrong place.
>
> Or is this a good place for formatting commands?
>
> Any suggestions welcome.
I'd agree with Japhy's substring suggestion, but I think you could do
something like this if you just wanted to play array games with the
string:
@str = $str =~ /(.)/;
$#str = 4095;
$str = join '', @str;
Hey, TMTOWTDI, though you shouldn't overDO it.... =o)
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