From: Zachary Holt <z@...>
Date: 2007-06-07T10:52:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Globals not incrementing inside block

Hi,

On Jun 6, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

> I have the following snippet:
>
>     at_exit do
> 	$total_count, $daily_count = 0, 0
> 	IO.foreach(my_logfile) do |line|
> 	    $total_count.next

You're not storing the new value
$total_count = $total_count.next
or
$total_count += 1

Also, you don't need globals to do what you're trying to do.