From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-07-03T16:07:52+09:00
Subject: LSRC Name Picker

Hey all.
I seem to get this error whenever I run my program.

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ERROR
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namePicker-cli.rb:58: syntax error, unexpected '{', expecting kEND
       @names { |f| lines = f.readlines
                          ^
namePicker-cli.rb:60: syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting kEND
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What does this mean? Here is my code:

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CODE
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###########################################
# Tally ho, I'm going to write this
# as best I can. Store the picked names
# to a file, and then that will be the checker.
###########################################

require 'ftools'
require 'rubygems'
require 'commandline/optionparser'
include CommandLine

##############################
# Set us up for CL options
##############################
od = OptionParser.new { |o|
   o << Option.new(:flag,
                   :names => %w[--help  -h],
                   :opt_description => "Prints this page."
                   )
   o << Option.new(:names => %w[--file -f],
                   :arg_arity => [1,1],
                   :arg_description => "file",
                   :opt_found => OptionParser::GET_ARGS
                   )
}

op = od.parse

######################
# Set up some rules
######################
if op['--help']
   puts od
   exit()
end

#################
# Variables...
#################
FILE = op['--file']

#####################
# NamePicker Class
#####################
class NamePicker

   def initialize
     # names = open(FILE)
     File.syscopy(FILE, '.names.txt')
     @names = open('.names.txt', 'w+')
   end

   def random
     selected = nil
     @names.inject { |choice, line| selected < 1/quiz.lineno.to_f ?  
line : choice }
     if selected
       puts selected.chomp
       @names { |f| lines = f.readlines                                
### LINE 58
         lines.puts unless $. == selected.chomp
       }                                                                 
                       ### LINE 60
       self.rewind
     end

   end
end

randomName = NamePicker.new
randomName.random
#end


Suggestions? Any?
~ Ari
English is like a pseudo-random number generator - there are a  
bajillion rules to it, but nobody cares.