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That will silently discard any line with length < 279! I think you meant to print outside the if...
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by Transient (Hermit) on Aug 20, 2005 at 03:43 UTC
    Correct - I didn't read that the OP wanted to keep the line. The intent was to show how to get past the substr error, the skipping of the print statement was not intended to be of consequence.