diff --git a/cli/luanode.js b/cli/luanode.js
index 267c7be..6036e85 100755
--- a/cli/luanode.js
+++ b/cli/luanode.js
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ function runString(code, chunkName) {
     }
     lualib.luaL_openlibs(L);
 
-    const status = lauxlib.luaL_loadbuffer(L, to_luastring(code), to_luastring(chunkName));
+    const status = lauxlib.luaL_loadbuffer(L, to_luastring(code), to_luastring(code).length, to_luastring(chunkName));
     if (status !== lua.LUA_OK) {
         const msg = safeToJsString(lua.lua_tostring(L, -1));
         process.stderr.write("luanode: " + msg + "\n");
diff --git a/tests/cli.test.js b/tests/cli.test.js
index 686720d..8f73c8f 100644
--- a/tests/cli.test.js
+++ b/tests/cli.test.js
@@ -49,4 +49,18 @@ describe("LuaNode-VM CLI", () => {
             fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
         }
     });
+    test("executes inline code and reports its chunk name", () => {
+        const cli = path.join(__dirname, "..", "cli", "luanode.js");
+
+        const success = spawnSync(process.execPath, [cli, "-e", "print('inline-ok')"], { encoding: "utf8" });
+        expect(success.status).toBe(0);
+        expect(success.stderr).toBe("");
+        expect(success.stdout.trim()).toBe("inline-ok");
+
+        const syntaxError = spawnSync(process.execPath, [cli, "-e", "this is not valid"], { encoding: "utf8" });
+        expect(syntaxError.status).toBe(1);
+        expect(syntaxError.stdout).toBe("");
+        expect(syntaxError.stderr).toContain("(command line):1:");
+    });
+
 });