# Why using socket  SocketReceive can only send max5 number

**URL:** <https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/why-using-socket-socketreceive-can-only-send-max5-number/8002>\
**Category:** RobotStudio\
**Created:** [December 5, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/why-using-socket-socketreceive-can-only-send-max5-number/8002 "2017-12-05T13:12:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![xiaoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/45deac/32.png) [@xiaoma](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/u/xiaoma)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/why-using-socket-socketreceive-can-only-send-max5-number/8002/1 "2017-12-05T13:12:37Z")

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In my pc, I creat a c++ client socket,and in RobotStudio, I creat a module about server socket, but when i send a string from client to server, the SocketReceive only show part of the message(if the length of the string is more than 5, it only show 5),i do not kow why.who can? tell me. thank you

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