From: Jim Freeze <jimfreeze@...>
Date: 2006-06-12T03:44:53+09:00
Subject: Re: gets problem - strange

On Jun 11, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Marcel Molina Jr. wrote:

> It works like perl in this regard, expecting the arguments on the  
> command
> line to be files the lines of which you want read.
>
> % echo -e "foo\nbar" > some_file
> % echo "while l = gets;  p l end" > gets.rb
> % ruby gets.rb some_file
> "foo\n"
> "bar\n"

So, I suppose that one needs to empty out ARGV before using gets?

Wow. Really?!

Jim Freeze