From: mental@...
Date: 2005-12-10T07:05:04+09:00
Subject: Re: new to Ruby - pls help in translating this

Quoting James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>:

> Replacing the above with:
>
> ARGF.each do |line|
>
> Is the same thing, but more powerful.  You could feed it multiple
> files at once, or use it in pipelined processing.  Just FYI.

Ah, thank you.  I couldn't remember how to do that.  That's closer
in spirit to his original Perl fragment, which used <>.

Perl:

 while (<>) {
   ...
 }

Ruby:

 while ARGF.gets
   ...
 end

(not that I'm advocating $_)

-mental