From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-11-16T07:55:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25351] Re: CGI beginner's trouble

On Thursday 15 November 2001 02:14 pm, Niklas Backlund wrote:

> I was unable to try things out in 'irb' (as I usually do when I'm
> experimenting) as I also get the following dilemma:
>
>    irb(main):001:0> require 'cgi'
>    true
>    irb(main):002:0> cgi = CGI.new("html3")
>    (offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)
>
> from which there seems to be no escape other than breaking out of
> 'irb'...

So at that point you just enter your form field values:
name1=value1
name2=value2
<EOF>

where <EOF> is the appropriate end of file character from the keyboard (on 
Unix, usually Ctrl-D, on Windows, often Ctrl-Z).

-- 
Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
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