From: Eustaquio Rangel de Oliveira J <eustaquiorangel@...>
Date: 2006-03-27T13:17:16+09:00
Subject: Re: input without blocking

> How do you do something like gets but without
> blocking?  All I want to 
> do is try to see if anything was input and if it
> wasn't then just go on 
> running the rest of my code.

Maybe you're looking for:

taq@taq$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require "timeout"
=> true
irb(main):002:0> s =
irb(main):003:0* begin
irb(main):004:1*    timeout(5) do
irb(main):005:2*       gets
irb(main):006:2>    end
irb(main):007:1> rescue TimeoutError
irb(main):008:1>    ""
irb(main):009:1> end

If on 5 seconds you don't type something, s will be an
empty string.

Best regards,

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Eust�quio "TaQ" Rangel 
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http://beam.to/taq 
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