From: Max Ischenko <max@...>
Date: 2001-03-03T00:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11899] Re: rewrite with Ruby


At Fri, 2 Mar 2001 22:20:26 +0900 ts wrote:

>>>>>> "M" == Max Ischenko <max@malva.com.ua> writes:

> M> It works, but do not make changes to the file itself.

> Sorry, I've not understood.

> You can't make a modification to a file if you don't save the result,
> i.e. you must first open a new file, then
>  * read a line
>  * modify it
>  * write the line to the new file
>  * continue until you reach the end of the file

> This is what do the switch -i and -p in perl and ruby.

Yes, I've figured that out.
Thanks anyway for the explanation.

PS:
Why $? is nil when Ruby starts?
I have to do `echo -n` at the beginning to set it to zero...


> Guy Decoux

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