From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-08-26T07:25:10+09:00
Subject: Re: No speedup...!

Karl von Laudermann wrote:
> Oliver Bandel wrote:

> I think what you wanted to do is use ARGV.each instead of ARGF.each, to
> iterate over the list of file names, and pass each file name into the
> look_for_begin function. Within the function, you'd process only the
> lines in that file. In other words, like this:
> 
> def look_for_begin(fn)
>   IO.foreach(fn) do |line|
>     if line =~ /^begin/
>       puts line
>       return
>     end
>   end
> end
> 
> ARGV.each {|fn| look_for_begin(fn) }

I think, Oliver wanted to iterate all lines in the files whose names 
were given as command line arguments.  Something like:

ARGF.each do |line|
   if line =~ /^begin/
     puts line
     break
   end
end

Kind regards

	robert