From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T06:11:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to slurp a file into a string?

Wes Gamble wrote:
> Isn't it better to do the block thing so that the file gets closed, 
> etc.?

Nope.  No need to worry about that with IO.read.  It's not returning an open 
handle, just a string.

Regards,

Dan

> 
> Daniel Berger wrote:
> 
>>Wes Gamble wrote:
>>
>>>so that the html variable has all of the contents of f.
>>>
>>>Is there a better/easier way?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Wes
>>>
>>
>>IO.read(@document.path)
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Dan
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