From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@...>
Date: 2005-01-23T20:54:39+09:00
Subject: File.read not returning nil [newbie]

Hi,

If I run the following code:

# "empty" is a 0-byte file in the current directory

File.open("empty") { |file|
  print "file.read should return nil\n" if file.eof?
  print "file.read: "
  print file.read
  print "\n"
}

read = File.open("empty").read
print "read is NOT nil\n" if read
--------------------------------------

I get:

file.read should return nil
file.read: nil
read is NOT nil

This is completely baffling me.  Can anyone explain what is going on?
I apologise if this is an obvious question, any pointers would be
appreciated.

Thanks,
Navin.