> I may up it to 100/150 but if anyone is aware of a package name for any linux > distro that exceeds 100 characters that would be helpful to know. I only use > a few different distros myself and wasn't expecting to hit this issue.
Hash tables for the long exceptions, as suggested by others. Balance the time wasted for infrequent table lookups versus time wasted reading very large null-laden tables from disk. Consider the possibility that some trickster will bury exploits in the mostly long null fields, after the newline. ----- Consider a postal address table, with a fixed field length for the city name. Then consider "Bangkok", a European neologism for: กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลก ภพนพรัตน์ ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์ มหาสถาน อมรพิมาน อวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะ วิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์ Romanized: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit Even the Thai shorten that to "Krung Thep Mahahakhon (Bangkok)" Practice the long form. When you encounter one of the twits who creates ridiculously long package names, corner them and blabber about your vacation in Thailand, mentioning the official Thai (20 second to pronounce) capital city name frequently. Watch the twits squirm. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
