From: Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@...>
Date: 2006-09-28T07:09:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiomatic file snarf

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:02:13 +0900 Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
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?  I must be looking in
> the wrong place @ruby-doc.org -Tim

some_variable = File.new(fname).readlines

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