From: music <music@...>
Date: 2007-04-24T16:45:04+09:00
Subject: Re: unix zcat with ruby?

Robert Dober wrote:
> 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

Great!!! and if input files are in gzip format? how can I read them?