Dear Monks, Could you tell me what is the maximum string length that PERL can handle without the need for doing something extra to it. I'm counting certain elements in relatively long strings (which can go up to 100MB), and i have a Windows executable file written by a friend of mine (i think he did the programming in c++), and a perl script, written by me. The thing is that for relatively short strings these two programs give the same results, but for longer strings the results differ, although the programs should work the same. Moreover, the string lengths reported by both program are the same, only the number of certain elements in the same strings differ depending on the program used. So either I did something wrong, or my friend did something wrong, and i believe it could be me because my friend is a proffesional programer...:-) Btw, I'm using perl under Fedora Core distribution. Thank You all very much in advance. Berislav Lisnic.

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