From: "juan pedro meriño" <juapdiaz@...>
Date: 2006-12-20T01:38:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd Problem with Command Line Args

how i use ruby with sesssion of this?

2006/12/19, Chunyun Zhao <chunyun.zhao@gmail.com>:
> Check out the doucmentation on gets method with: ri Kernel#gets
>
> On 12/19/06, Alex Ciarlillo <ac251404@ohio.edu> wrote:
> >
> > For some reason when using command line arguments to specify input
> > files, whenever I use 'gets' it seems to be reading from the argument
> > files instead of STDIN.
> >
> > My code is something like this (simplified):
> >
> > <code>
> >
> > emp_file = ARGV[0]
> > inp_file = ARGV[1]
> > out_file = ARGV[2]
> >
> > print "Please enter the first date of the pay period (MM/DD/YYYY): "
> > date = gets
> > puts date
> > exit
> >
> > </code>
> >
> > Now instead of allowing me to type a response it is just spitting out
> > the first line of the file that is given by ARGV[0]. In this case the
> > file is a list of 3 digit numbers and just spits out "###\n" and exits
> > without allowing me to type anything. Any ideas on why this is
> > happening? Do I need to clear 'gets' or something?
> > Thanks
> >
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> >
> >
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