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The problem with this is that you might well have more than 80 columns in any given row, as text gets written to that row (but not yet wrapped; text wrapping or trucation gets done later on).

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Re: Re: Re: Fun with two-dimensional arrays
by suaveant (Parson) on Aug 09, 2001 at 21:13 UTC
    Well, the second method accounts for that... the 0..$#{$vscr[$x]} gives you 0 thru the length of that row...

    or you could set the width of a row to be arbitrarily long... like 500 chars... and just keep reading till one of them was undef (assuming good coords had a space instead of undef...

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