From: Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Date: 2007-07-31T03:50:24+09:00
Subject: size change after file writing

Hi all,

I write a small script to read old files and write to new files. Either
reading line by line or whole file at once then I ask Ruby to write to
new files. The new file is much smaller than the old one. I also find
that the new file losses many information. How to explain this?

Thanks,

Li

#################script-1 read file line by line and write to a new file
path='C:\\Allo12-Y2'
file_names=[]

Dir.open(path).each do|f|
              file_names<<path+"\\#{f}" unless f=~/^\.\.*$/
end

file_names.each do|f|
       new_file=File.open("#{f}b",'w')
       File.open(f,'r') do|file|
       file.each_line{|line|new_file.print line }
       end
end


###################sctript-2 read whole file and write to a new file


path='C:\\Allo12-Y2'
file_names=[]

Dir.open(path).each do|f|
              file_names<<path+"\\#{f}" unless f=~/^\.\.*$/
end


file_names.each do|f|
      file=File.open(f,'r')                  #open file for read
      new_file=File.open("#{f}b",'w')#open file for write
      new_file.print file.read               #write old file to new file
end

### size in old file: AlloY2.001  is 609kb
    size in new file: AlloY2.001b  is 47bk
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