Re: RFC 39 (v3) Perl should have a print operator

2000-09-05 Thread Peter Scott
Have we finally found a way to put println in Perl? (Ducks) > I am considering this as a possible addition to RFC 51: > > = $data; # print to tty and file I am not so crazy about this part though. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies

Re: Maximum length input line

2000-08-20 Thread Peter Scott
At 10:06 AM 8/20/00 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Peter Scott wrote: > > > I read that before I made my posting; it looked to me that :block was > > specifying a fixed-length read independent of line terminators, i.e., same > > behavior as $/ =

Re: Maximum length input line

2000-08-19 Thread Peter Scott
At 12:01 AM 8/20/00 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Peter Scott wrote: > > -io guys, I've been looking through your archives at the line discipline > > stuff and I don't see this there: what do you think? The proposal is > for a > > mode

Re: Maximum length input line

2000-08-19 Thread Peter Scott
ly. I meant to say that I don't want to truncate the lines inside the script, because it's already too late then. Think of this as a safety mechanism, like taint. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies

Re: Maximum length input line

2000-08-19 Thread Peter Scott
han that would be an error of some kind." Yes, Perl can handle many more characters than that before it starts to have problems, but so what. Maybe I have scripts where I would set it to 1_000_000_000 but that would still make sense. [followups to -io only please] -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies