From: "Marcel Molina Jr." <marcel@...>
Date: 2006-06-12T03:48:17+09:00
Subject: Re: gets problem - strange

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 03:44:53AM +0900, 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?!

You want IO#gets not Kernel#gets.

  STDIN.gets

marcel
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Marcel Molina Jr. <marcel@vernix.org>