From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2005-09-13T07:50:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Adventures in html decoding.

On 9/12/05, Morgan <taria@the-arc.net> wrote:
> ===
> require 'cgi'
> outfile = File.new(ARGV[1], File::CREAT|File::WRONLY|File::EXCL)
> IO.readlines(ARGV[0]).each{ |line|
>         outfile.puts CGI::unescapeHTML(line)
> }
> outfile.close
> ===

This may be off topic, but I always wonder why all the flags to File.
Could what you are doing be written as:

  File.open(ARGV[1], "w") { |outfile|
    File.foreach(ARGV[0]) { |line|
      outfile.puts CGI::unescapeHTML(line)
    }
  }

or am I missing something big here?
-- 
Jim Freeze