From: Tamreen Khan <tamreenkhan@...>
Date: 2007-01-17T04:19:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple editing. Works in IRB; not as script.

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On 1/16/07, Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com> wrote:
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> 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.


Those aren't parentheses, they're braces, which means you're passing a block
to it.
You have to use ( instead of { .

contents= File.read("test1.txt")

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