From: Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@...>
Date: 2006-10-09T03:45:12+09:00
Subject: Re: how to concatenate all the lines into one string

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 03:36:43AM +0900, Li Chen wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am new to Ruby. I just wonder how I can concatenate all the lines from
> one file  and let them become one string.

How about:

a=File.open("/home/n6tadam/.xsession").read.gsub!('\n', ' ')

I've substituted the newlines for spaces -- but you can do whatever you
want with it.

-- Thomas Adam

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