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Chad R. Meiners wrote:
> I believe this is what David is saying.  Normally when you write code to
> accept arbitrarily large input, you write it so that it's only constraint is
> memory.

He said "1500 was meant as an arbitrarily large value". But there
is no such thing as an arbitrarily large value. To deal with large
input lines, you need to use some other technique, such as the
recursive Get_Line.