From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-01T21:35:10+09:00
Subject: Re: how to read binary file with char 0x1A

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, hsun wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to read a binary file with a char '0x1A' (EOF on window I guess). The 
> method
>
> File::each_byte stops at this char. 
> How can get it to read the whole file? Is there a binary mode for file 
> operation?
>
> Thanks

open(path, 'rb') do |f|
   ...
end

hth.

-a
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