max # columns in UNIX

thornton102 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a Perl script in UNIX that prints about 150 columns of data. Even if I set the number of columns to 175 using 'stty,' either within the program (`stty columns 175`;) or in the CSH before running it, it always wraps at a maximum of about 130 columns. How can I get around this? I *can* truncate the line since the text on that side isn't all that important, but I'd rather not.

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Re: max # columns in UNIX by Anonymous Monk on Jun 04, 2012 at 14:38 UTC
either within the program (`stty columns 175`;) Try `use autodie qw/ system /; system q[stty columns 175 ];` if the call fails there should be an error message	[reply] [d/l]