From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2007-01-17T04:07:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple editing. Works in IRB; not as script.

Tamreen Khan wrote:
> On 1/16/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>> >> James Edward Gray II
>> >
>> > Duh, sorry James, but, I don't see what you mean. I don't have any
>> > (...)
>> > data in there. The test file I made is named "test1.txt.")
> 
> 
> You need to pass File.read a simple method argument, which goes inside
> parentheses, you don't need a block.

I don't understand. My line says this:

contents = File.read{"test1.txt"}

I'm using parentheses, no block. I've done this in a number of other 
scripts, and, they work fine.

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