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Increase buffer for Console.Readline?

I have a line that is about 1.5kb of text. I want my console app to read it but only the first 255 characters can be pasted in. How do I increase this limit? I am literally reading it using Console.ReadLine() in debug mode under visual studio 2013

Solution

  • From MSDN something like this ought to work:

    Stream inputStream = Console.OpenStandardInput();
byte[] bytes = new byte[1536];    // 1.5kb
int outputLength = inputStream.Read(bytes, 0, 1536);

    The you can convert your byte array to a string with something like:

    var myStr = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);