What's a quick way to read in a line (as defined by $/) with a specified maximum length?

Hmm. read FILEHANDLE, $line, $max_len will read exactly $max_len bytes into $line, which:

• Isn't the same thing on multibyte-character input, and
• Isn't what you want.

Nonetheless, if you're really worried, it may do the trick.

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