From: "Rob Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Unless there is a fixed limit, which I don't think there is, I imagine
> identifiers are held inside Perl as a C string, which is
> null-terminated and therefore of any length supportable by the
> hardware. I doubt if it will cause you problems. 

No they are not C stringz.

        our ${"one\0two"} = 10;
        print ${"one\0two"},"\n";

They are Perl strings so they can contain any character you like.
But of course if you do use certain characters you'll have to quote 
the variablename.

Anyway ... I don't think there is any limit (you could reach).
Maybe the variablename cannot be longer than say 4GB, but ... ;-)

Jenda
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