# Re: Trouble with Marshal

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trouble-with-marshal/73781>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 26, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trouble-with-marshal/73781 "2006-10-26T23:47:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trouble-with-marshal/73781/1 "2006-10-26T23:47:02Z")

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From: Gavin K.

> It took less time than I thought to bring it down to a simple,  
> reproducible, moderately sanitized case:

Bah…this time manually wrapped to less than 70 characters in the hope  
that it will survive intact:

p VERSION, PLATFORM  
#=\> “1.8.5”  
#=\> “i386-mswin32”

s1 = “Change 35573 by fred.joomblie@PD133 on 2006/09/26 11:58:21” +  
“\n\n\tClear scene method to empty the XXXX display on File” +  
“-\>New\n\nAffected files …\n\n… //Dev03/Main/AnarkCore/” +  
“Cxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/Cxxxxxxxx.cs#47 edit\n… //Dev03/Main/” +  
“AnarkCore/Renderxxxx/Scenexxxx.cpp#6 edit\n… //Dev03/” +  
“Main/AnarkCore/Renderxxxx/Scenexxxx.h#7 edit\n… //Dev03” +  
“/Main/AnarkCore/RenderxxxxUnitTest/RenderxxxxTestRunner.cs” +  
“#7 edit\n… //Dev03/Main/AnarkCore/RenderToolkit/” +  
“Interfaces/IScene.cs#8 edit\n… //Dev03/Main/AnarkCore/” +  
“RenderToolkit/RenderController.cs#7 edit\n\n”

File.open( ‘desc.marshal’, ‘wb+’ ){ |f| f \<\< Marshal.dump( s1 ) }

p s2 = Marshal.load( IO.read( ‘desc.marshal’ ) )

#=\> foo.rb:13:in `load’: marshal data too short (ArgumentError)