When you use 0 as the second arg to newSVpv(), the variable is deemed to finish at the first NULL character (\0). Therefore if htmlFileBuffer contains one or more embedded NULLs (which I would think is unlikely) you won't get what you want. In that case you would need to specify the actual size as the second arg to newSVpv().

Here's a little demo Inline::C script:
use warnings;

use Inline C => Config =>
    BUILD_NOISY => 1;

use Inline C => <<'EOC';

SV * foo(char * sv) {
     return newSVpv(sv, 0);
}

SV * foo2(char * sv, int len) {
     return newSVpv(sv, len);
}

EOC

$x = 'hello' . "\0" . 'world';
print $x, " ", length($x), "\n";

$y = foo($x);
print $y, " ", length($y), "\n";

$z = foo2($x, length($x));
print $z, " ", length($z), "\n";

[download]
It prints:
hello world 11
hello 5
hello world 11

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re: perlembed - limit on size of variable being passed to perl from C by Madcap Laughs
in thread perlembed - limit on size of variable being passed to perl from C by jithoosin

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