>>>>> "PS" == Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PS> No, the point is not that I want truncated lines but that I want to say
PS> "toss/leave back the excess over 100,000 characters when I do a <INPUT>,
PS> for I am sure that a line longer than that would be an error of some
PS> kind." Yes, Perl can handle many more characters than that before it
PS> starts to have problems, but so what. Maybe I have scripts where I would
PS> set it to 1_000_000_000 but that would still make sense.
i will add this to the aio (advanced I/O) rfc. i have to get back to
writing that set. someone kick me to do it.
uri
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