From: Yasushi Shoji <yashi@...>
Date: 2001-01-12T10:51:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9168] Re: truncation of error strings

At Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:40:02 +0900,
Raja S. wrote:
> 
> Is there any where to prevent the truncation of messages produced during
> error handling.  Consider the following:
> 
> irb> Dir.chdir "/nfs/mantaray/home/user1/raja/Research/Raja/Results-gls-scale+splib/matrix.medium/Scale/0"
> 
> Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - "/nfs/mantaray/home/user1/raja/Research/Raja/Results-gls-scale+splib/matrix...."

this is just not trancation but you can try:

begin
  Dir.chdir "/nfs/mantaray/home/user1/raja/Research/Raja/Results-gls-scale+splib/matrix.medium/Scale/0"
rescue => e
  puts 'foo'
end

this should yields only 'foo'.  if you need to edit error message as
well, `e.message' to get it from `e'
--
        yashi