From: Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@...>
Date: 2004-11-23T06:22:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Having Ruby 1.8 decide on "File.open" or 'IO.popen'?

Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 07:41:04 +0900, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
>>
>>SomeClass.open('/var/spool/mail/jupp')
>>SomeClass.open('| /usr/bin/fetchmail')
>>
>>Or is there good reason *not* to do that?
> 
> 
> "| " are valid characters to start a filename, so how would you
> distinguish what is intended?

By means of quoting:

SomeClass.open('| /usr/bin/fetchmail')   # Stream
SomeClass.open('\|\ /usr/bin/fetchmail') # File

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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