From: B_M <bmbros@...>
Date: 2001-04-24T02:43:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14094] Assignment to $0 is truncated

Hello

When I assign a string to $0, it's truncated to a size relative to the original $0's size.

Example:

mike@photon:~$ cat a.rb
$0 = "-" * 50
p $0.size
mike@photon:~$ ruby a.rb
9
mike@photon:~$ ln a.rb abcdef.rb
mike@photon:~$ ruby abcdef.rb
14
mike@photon:~$ ln a.rb aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.rb
mike@photon:~$ ruby aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.rb 
47

I need $0 assigmnent to run a script using 'load'. Should I rename my script to something like loader______________________.rb to allow long subscript names? :)

On Win32, it seems to always be truncated to 25 chars.


Mike