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in reply to Re^5: Perl stops reading __DATA__ when meeting SUB character on Windows (commit)
in thread Perl stops reading __DATA__ when meeting SUB character on Windows

Perl should not have reached the ^Z while reading the source code. It should have found __DATA__ first.

So how big of a buffer do you suppose is being used when Perl is reading from a file looking for "__DATA__"?

- tye