Re^2: substr outside of string?

$a x= 2**31; creates an empty string,

Look again:

C:\test>perl
$a = chr(0); $a x= 2**31;
print length $a;
substr( $a, 0, 2**16 ) =~ tr[\0][\1];
substr( $a, 2**16, 2**16 ) =~ tr[\0][\1];
^Z
substr outside of string at - line 3.
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Re^3: substr outside of string? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 16, 2013 at 16:08 UTC
On systems with 32-bit IVs, one gets zero. I guess there are two problems, then.	[reply]