[datatable-help] fread(character string) limited to strings less than 4096 long?

[Matthew Dowle]

Hi,
Nice to hear from you. Nope not known to me. Obviously 4096 is 4k, is that
the R limit for a character string length? What happens at 4097?
Matthew

> Hi,
>
> I have an example of a string of 4097 characters which can't be parsed by
> fread; however, if I remove any character, it can be parsed just fine. Is
> that a known limitation?
>
> (If I write the string to a file and then fread the file name, it works
> too.)
>
> Let me know if you need the string and/or a bug report.
>
> Thanks
> Timothée
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