From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2006-12-06T20:49:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: working with a text file and converting to xml

Adam Teale wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I saved your code and called it convert.rb. I ran it (replacing 
> 'filename' with the path of my text file - was that right to do?)
> 
> i got this error:
> convert.rb:1: unknown regexp options - atal
> 
> any ideas?
I guess you are referring to Paul's solution since I did not use any
files :) In any case, could you paste the code here (convert.rb) so I
can check what's going on?

> also, do you know if thereis any way to run a script from the 
> commandline like?:
> ./convert.rb mytextfile.txt

Sure. The array called ARGV contains all the command line options.

------ test.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
puts ARGV[0]
puts ARGV[1]
------

./test rb foo bar

will output

----
foo
bar
----

Cheers,
Peter

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