From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-08-12T16:43:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows ENV object being corrupted

2009/8/11 Herman Schultz <phermans@live.com>:
> Herman Schultz wrote:
>> I am running in rake ( I have reproduced the problem with a straight
>> ruby script ) and I read in a batch file that has a few hundred
>> environment variables in it.  At some magic point when 323 entries are
>> made to the ENV object, suddenly the ENV object gets corrupted.
>> Suddenly the adds don't seem to take and later a bunch of my Environment
>> variables go missing.
>
> This appears to be related to spaces in the value strings.  As a Hack I
> removed any Env value that had a space, which happens to work for me
> now, but I still can't wrap my head around why size plays a factor.

I cannot either but this is due to the fact that I am missing
information in your original posting.  For example, what is the format
of the "batch file" are you reading?  What does variable "environment"
contain?

robert


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