From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-09-28T07:06:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiomatic file snarf

On Sep 27, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Tim Bray wrote:

> I want to open a file, suck the contexts into a variable and close  
> it again.  I suppose I could IO#each and glue the lines together.
>
> Currently I have
>
>       f = File.new(fname)
>       text = f.read
>       f.close
>
> Surely there's an idiomatic Ruby one-liner?

Sure:

   text = File.read(fname)

James Edward Gray II