I'm not experiencing this on Windows...  Could it be that your
terminal or tooling is limiting the input to 4096 characters?

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Alex Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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