Hi! I maybe completely missed something here, but neither PerlMonks nor Google gives me hints on how to accomplish the following:

I'd like to get the width of console window (the one which was used to start my perl script) so that I know how long my output lines are allowed to be at maximum without introducing "forced" linebreaks by the console itself.
Say, the console window has a width of 100 characters, then I would like to know that so I can output lines no longer than, for example, 99 characters to prevent those unintended line-wrapping...
I thought there must be something in %ENV, but no go, I didn't find anything. Any ideas? I don't get any further here.

Thanks in advance, Michael

In reply to How to get the width of a console window? by professa

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