From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2006-06-22T15:57:29+09:00
Subject: Re: bug in $. ?

Wybo Dekker schrieb:
> wybo>cat t
> def out; print "#$. "; end # print $. plus a space
> out
> $. = 0
> out
> DATA.each { out }
> puts
> __END__
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> wybo>ruby t
> 7 0 8 9 10 11
> 
> This should, probably even without the $.=0 statement, print:
> 7 0 1 2 3 4
> 
> Am I wrong?

$. is the number of the last line read from the current input file. When you 
read lines from DATA, you're reading the lines 8..11 of your file "t". Why do 
you think line 8 should be reported as line 1?

Regards,
Pit