From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-04-24T16:29:34+09:00
Subject: Re: unix zcat with ruby?

On 4/24/07, music <music@musi.ca> wrote:
> Robert Dober wrote:
> > On 4/23/07, music <music@musi.ca> wrote:
> >> I have to read in many files.
> >> I prefer to concat those files and reading only one large file.
> >> There is a way like unix zcat?
> >>
> >>
> > Sure is
> > ARGF
>
> ARGF ok, but how can I pass ARGF to a method?
>
>
As a global constant it is visible anywhere, you can thus simply do
things like this

def my_method
   ARGF.each_line do
     | line |
    whatever
   end
end

R.

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