printing a String that contains a huge number of characters in Java

Question

I am trying to print a really long character String using StringBuilder in Java. For ex. this code i'm using:-

 repeat1=new StringBuilder();
 for(j=0;j<long_string;j++)
   repeat1.append('5');
 System.out.print(repeat1);

The number of characters I am trying to print is more than (long_string=)80,000 or so. But the output gives a Runtime Error and the value that gets printed is Truncated after printing 65536 characters which I assume is the max +ve range of Characters in Java . Output is something like that :-

555555555555555555555555555555 ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ 555555555555555555555555{-truncated-}

I don't know what I am doing wrong that it is not printing all the characters!!

Answer 1

You can create and print much larger Strings in Java.

To me it looks like your console/shell/terminal truncates the extremely long line.