From: Marcel Ward <wardies@...>
Date: 2006-11-04T03:08:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Unable to write to file... (example from "pickaxe book",

On 03/11/06, Li Chen <chen_li3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mike Fletcher wrote:
> > John Maclean wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > File.open( "infile", "r" ) | in |
> >   File.open( "outfile", "w" ) | out |
> >     while line = in.gets
> >       out.print line
> >     end
> >   end
> > end
>
> Do you think this script work?

It fails because "in" is a reserved word in Ruby and cannot be used as
a variable name.  Try changing the two instances of "in" to "inp" and
it will work.

-- 
Marcel