AndrewMcHorney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked:
> The spec does not allow for carriage returns or line feeds
> making it a long line. Is there a way to read "x" number of bytes?
$ perldoc -f read
read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET
read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH
Attempts to read LENGTH characters of data into variable SCALAR from the
specified FILEHANDLE. Returns the number of characters actually read, 0 at end
of file, or undef if there was an error (in the latter case $! is also set).
SCALAR will be grown or shrunk so that the last character actually read is the
last character of the scalar after the read.
[...]
HTH,
Thomas
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