Hi!
Perl has no string length limit. You are only limited by the amount of
memory that is available.
If your program is misbehaving then I fear it is the programs error (or well
the person that wrote it ;-) rather then perl or any limit on the length of
a string.
And as for the current implementation, i think it's 2 or 4 GB (uint/sint
index into string length?).
But basically, if you have a single scalar of that size, the perl
interpreters limits should be the least of your problems. If you're
going this way, please redesign (a single, accidental copy of a string
has the potential to bring the system to a standstill).
But a few megabytes won't be any problem...
...until you do something unwise like split// and turn you scalar into a
multi-million elements array.
LG
Rene
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