From: Toby Hutton <thutton@...>
Date: 2001-01-30T13:55:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10104] A parsing bug?

Hello, I have another potential parsing bug (or of course I don't
understand what I'm doing).

I have a file with a section that contains a string count and then a
bunch of null terminated strings one after the other.  I'm reading
them all one by one and putting them in an array.

((fp.read 4).unpack "l")[0].times do
  names.push (fp.gets "\0").chop       # <- line 39
end

Produces:
./parseBlend.rb:39: private method `chop' called for ["*next\000"]:Array (NameError)
        from ./parseBlend.rb:38:in `times'
        from ./parseBlend.rb:38

"*next" is the first string in the file.  But:

((fp.read 4).unpack "l")[0].times do
  names.push fp.gets("\0").chop
end

Works fine.  The distinction is (fp.gets "\0").chop
vs. fp.gets("\0").chop.  Shouldn't they both work?
-- 
Toby.