From: Tim Heaney <theaney@...>
Date: 2005-01-24T02:35:53+09:00
Subject: Re: File.read not returning nil [newbie]

Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> writes:
>
> Just so that I'm clear.  You tried this:
>
> File.open("/dev/null") { |file|
>   print "file.read should return nil\n" if file.eof?
>   print "file.read: "
>   print file.read
>   print "\n"
> }
>
> and got it to print the empty string?

That's right, yes.

  $ cat fileread.rb
  #!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
  
  File.open("/dev/null") { |file|
    print "file.read should return nil\n" if file.eof?
    print "file.read: "
    print file.read
    print "\n"
  }
  $ ./fileread.rb
  file.read should return nil
  file.read: