From: Henry Maddocks Date: 2012-08-01T04:50:55+09:00 Subject: Re: String Handling in Ruby On 1/08/2012, at 7:24 AM, Tridib Bandopadhyay wrote: > Can any one tell me why this time difference is going on? Here is an article that explains how strings are stored... http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/1/4/never-create-ruby-strings-longer-than-23-characters Henry