From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-09-13T16:16:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Adventures in html decoding.


Jim Freeze wrote:
> On 9/12/05, Morgan <taria@the-arc.net> wrote:
> > *never even -seen- ARGF before*
>
> ARGF is a reference to $stdin.
>
> --
> Jim Freeze

An object providing access to virtual concatenation of files
passed as command-line arguments or standard input if there
are no command-line arguments.  --  Ruby in a Nutshell

ARGF is no more esoteric than ARGV, and it's quite handy.
Let's say you want to process every line of every file
on the command-line:

ruby -e 'ARGF.each_line{|x| p x}' file1 file2 file3