From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-05-27T04:17:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about -K, $KCODE, command line

Ross Bamford wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 03:38 +0900, Daniel Berger wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> If I run a program from the shell like "ruby test.rb -K u", why isn't 
>> $KCODE set within the program to "UTF8"?
>>
>> # test.rb
>> puts $KCODE
>>
>> ruby test.rb -K u -> "NONE" ???
>>
>> It looks like the only way to change it is to assign to $KCODE directly 
>> within the program.  Why? Would changing $KCODE from a command line 
>> option have unintended side effects?
> 
> You need -Ku, not -K u. The K is being taken as empty, and the 'u' is
> being passed as an argument to your script.
> 
> $ ruby -Ku -e 'puts $KCODE'
> UTF8
> $ ruby -e 'puts $KCODE' -Ku
> UTF8
> 

I tried that.

Actually, my *real* problem was that I was putting the option *after* 
the program name.  DUH!

Thanks,

Dan