From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2006-09-28T08:40:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiomatic file snarf

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> 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)


Actually, the idiom I most use is

File.read( fname).scan( %r{ juicy stuff}x) do |match|
   # do something with juicy stuff
end



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