3.14 Pragma: Maximum Output File Line Length

3.14 Pragma: Maximum Output File

Line Length

As well as keeping an eye on input line lengths, FunnelWeb also

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keeps an eye on the line lengths of product files and flags all lines

longer than a certain limit with error messages. Unlike the

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maximum input line length, which can vary dynamically

throughout the input file, the maximum product file line length

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remains fixed throughout the generation of all the product files.

1 Introduction

The maximum product file line length pragma allows this value to

2 Interface

be set. If there is more than one such pragma in an input file, the

3 Scanner

pragmas must all specify the same value.

4 Parser

5 Analyser

pragma_moll = ps "maximum_output_line_length"

6 Tangle

              s "=" s numorinf

7 Weave

The default value is 80 characters.

8 Shell

9 Commands

This pragma is only one of two constraints on the length of the

lines of the product files. The +W command line option also

10 Glossary

contributes. The actual value that FunnelWeb uses is the minimum

11 References

of the limits specified in the command line and pragmas.

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FunnelWeb does not monitor the length of the lines of its other

output files (journal file, listing file, documentation file).

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