From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2005-08-18T00:30:50+09:00
Subject: Is there a simpler way to do this?

Hi.

Just wondering if there's a simpler way to do this?

file = File.open("/usr/blah/1.txt") do | file |
     while line = file.gets
         the_string += line
     end
end

In other words, open a file, read the contents into a string called  
the_string

Thanks,
Julian.