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Not a Bug in Perlby maa (Pilgrim) |
on Jan 31, 2004 at 19:42 UTC ( [id://325571]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Hi,This isn't a bug in Perl, it's a Win32 problem. a "String" in the Win32 world is (up to) 255 characters terminated by \0 (as in a C string). You'll find this is a limitation of a "Text" field in MS Access, too. You can also demonstrate this "environment variable feature" in IIS if you enter a key=value in a query string where the value has more than 255 characters... it gets chopped and Env variables get stuck in... Neat! HTH - Mark
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