From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@...>
Date: 2005-02-21T07:06:15+09:00
Subject: Re: destructive! operations

mark sparshatt <msparshatt@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> One problem with this suggestion that comes to mind is, what if there 
> are any blank lines in the file. then gets.chomp would return "" which 
> would cause the while loop to exit. Probably not what you want

Point.  The chomp would make it not work here.  There are many
situations where it could be elegant though.

Cheers,
Navin.