--- Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:01:45 +0100 "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > * Jonathan E. Paton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-20 20:51]:
> > > if (@array > $bound) {
> > > $array[$bound-1] = ", etc"; # Set element at boundary
> > > $#array = $bound-1; # Shorten array to boundary
> > > }
> > >
> > > print join ", ", @array;
> >
> > Again, that's the same as:
> >
> > join ', ', @array[0 .. $bound], @array > $bound ? 'etc' : ();
>
> both are wrong. how can you be sure the resulting string will be
> no more than 90 chars (X chars) in length?
>
> for example the first element in the array is 128K :)
We are now both aware that we were solving the wrong problem, I
point this out myself in one of my later posts. References:
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02860.html
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02862.html
Jonathan Paton
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