# Segmentation fault?!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/segmentation-fault/110242>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 24, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/segmentation-fault/110242 "2007-07-24T16:19:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![lasastard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/58956e/32.png) [@lasastard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lasastard)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/segmentation-fault/110242/1 "2007-07-24T16:19:03Z")

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Hi everyone,

could anyone please enlighten me as to what ruby wants to tell me by

"[BUG] Segmentation fault  
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i486-linux]

Aborted(core dumped)  
"  
?

The script I am running is a textparser, that takes strings, splits them  
and uses the resulting array for a subsequent operation

The above error occurred, when the script reached a rather long line  
(took me quite a bit to identify the bugger…).  
Couldnt find much on that while googling around, so whats the deal with  
that? I dont see any problem with the respective string (fits the  
pattern that I use on all the other strings, too) other than that it is  
quite a bit longer than the rest (~1000 characters).

Hope someone knows more about that!

Cheers,

Marc