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PERL Variable names, Significant Length

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Hello everyone,

I'm new to PERL and i just wanted to ask how many are the significant initial characters in naming a variable in PERL. I know that a variable has a maximum name length of 255, but how many of these are significant.

In C for instance,
<quote>
63 significant initial characters in an internal identifier or a macro
name (each universal character name or extended source character is
considered a single character)
— 31 significant initial characters in an external identifier
< end quote>
Aug 7 '09 #1
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numberwhun
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You should take a read of the perldata language reference page. It should answer your questions.

Regards,

Jeff
Aug 7 '09 #2
KevinADC
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On my Vista 64 bit with strawberry perl 5.10 I can use a scalar with 257 characters (not including the $ at the beginning). At 258 I get the "identifier too long" error.
Aug 8 '09 #3
numberwhun
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@KevinADC
He he, you tried it, didn't you? :)
Aug 8 '09 #4
KevinADC
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@numberwhun
I'm guilty. May I be punished now?

Aug 8 '09 #5

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