[Tutor] length of a string? Advice saught

[Kent Johnson]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
> read() functions usually have an optional buffersize parameter
> set to a "reasonable" size. If you try to read more than that it
> will be truncated. This is explained in the read() documentation
> for files.

?? files have a buffer size that sets how much is read from the disk
at once; I don't think it affects how much is read by file.read(). The
docs for that say,
"If the size argument is negative or omitted, read all data until EOF
is reached."

Kent