in reply to Re: string gets front truncated
in thread string gets front truncated

Regardless of my goal, since perl is supposed to have no intrinsic limit on string length, shouldn't I be able to read a long string without it getting truncated? And, isn't it odd that the FRONT is truncated? If a buffer was getting full, I'd expect that the late-arriving data would be dumped. And, if it was starting over to fill it up again from the front, how come it ends at the right place?

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Re^3: string gets front truncated
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 30, 2008 at 10:27 UTC
    You are assuming that 1) its getting truncated, 2) perl is truncating it. You can't verify the output by what you see in your console. Example 
    C:\>perl -e "print qq,\r$_, for 1 .. 3"
3
C:\>perl -e "print qq,\r$_, for 1 .. 3" |hexdump
00000000: 0D 31 0D 32 0D 33       -                         | 1 2 3|
00000006;

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