Please file a jira enhancement. Changes could include updating the doc string, or adding a new arity to read-line that takes a size and passes it through to the buffered reader.
On Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 6:28:26 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > Hello there, > > I was using read-line to read a large line and found it limits its input > to 4095 chars. I tested this on both Clojure 1.8.0 and 1.9.0-beta1. > > Steps to reproduce: > > $ lein new foo > $ cd foo > $ lein repl > ... > => (count (read-line)) > > Then enter a line that’s longer than 4095 characters; I used 8000 a's. > > Expected output: > > 8000 > > Actual output: > > 4095 > > No matter the real length of your input, it’ll always be truncated to 4095 > chars if it’s longer. > > This is not in the documentation so I assume it’s either an implementation > bug or a documentation miss. I wanted to know which one it is before trying > to fix it. > > I’ve done some research and it appears to be a limitation of the > BufferedReader’s readLine method that uses a buffer of either 4k or 8k > depending on the implementation. Should we (1) work around this limit in > the code so that read-line does actually read a whole line or (2) just > update the documentation to note this limit? > > Thanks, > > -- Baptiste Fontaine > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
