From: jen Marsh <lists@...>
Date: 2013-05-18T12:50:01+09:00
Subject: Ruby 'gets' truncates input to 256 characters (Windows)

Is this a 'feature' of Ruby on windows?
I am trying to enter a long string (> 256 characters but generally <
512) in Ruby with:

    puts "Enter long string"
    ilogo = gets.chomp
    puts ilogo

For some reason, it always truncates the input to keep only 256
characters (before chomp).
I verified that Ruby accepts longer strings, and that Windows 7 command
line console also accepts strings > 256 chars. I have seen that people
don't have the issue with MacOS, but others do have it with Windows XP.
I am running Win7.  I can't find any mention of the gets method having
that type of limitation, but I am surely missing something.  Could that
be just a 'gets' limitation for Ruby running on Windows?

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