From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-06-12T03:47:30+09:00
Subject: Re: gets problem - strange

Jim Freeze wrote:
> 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?!


ARGF really. This bites me sometimes. I have difficulty
remembering the details of how it works.

Hal