From: Mike Fletcher <lemurific+rforum@...>
Date: 2006-11-04T04:34:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Unable to write to file... (example from "pickaxe book",

Li Chen wrote:
> Mike Fletcher wrote:
>> John Maclean wrote:
>>> Thanks! The light shines. So how can i -write- to a file using the code 
>>> below as an example?
>> 
>> Open a file for writing
>> 
>> File.open( "infile", "r" ) | in |
>>   File.open( "outfile", "w" ) | out |
>>     while line = in.gets
>>       out.print line
>>     end
>>   end
>> end
>> 
>> See the docs for IO which explain all the mode flags ("r", "w", "a", 
>> etc.).
> 
> Do you think this script work?

As is no (I blame lack of caffeine and/or sleep); but with "do" inserted 
in the right two places and the reserved word "in" replaced with 
something that's not a reserved word ( say "inf" ) it works just fine.

One should take all example code posted in haste to mailing lists with a 
grain of salt.

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