From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-03-07T08:52:27+09:00
Subject: Re: IO#Foreach  -- Max line length

Tristin Davis wrote:
> But by the time you actually get count, isn't the line already read in 
> memory.  So if the line is 7 gigabytes, it'll probably crash the system.
> 
> 

Is this what you are looking for:

max_bytes = 30
text = IO.read('data.txt', max_bytes)
puts text
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