Why does Console.Readline() have a limit on the length of text it allows? [duplicate]

Answer 1

This is a somewhat bizarre limitation on the Console API. I had this problem before and found the following solutions:

Console.SetIn(new StreamReader(Console.OpenStandardInput(8192)));

From the following MSDN forum post:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/csharpgeneral/thread/51ad87c5-92a3-4bb3-8385-bf66a48d6953

See also this related StackOverflow question:

Console.ReadLine() max length?