From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-11-08T06:22:11+09:00
Subject: Re: from text file to array in shortest way

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, ngoc wrote:

> books_array = Array.new()
> File.open('books_file.txt').each { |line|
>    books_array.push(line)
> }
>
> Are there other ways shorter than above ?
> For example: books_array = File.open('books_file.txt').to_array()

a = IO::read 'books_file.txt'

-a
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