From: optman <optman@...>
Date: 2007-09-07T13:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Where is the definition of File.read()?

On 9 7 ,   1 24 , John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sep 6, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Gregory Brown wrote:
>
> > On 9/6/07, optman <opt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Where is the public class method File.read() defined? Which take a
> >> file name as parameter, but what is in return? I have search all the
> >> document and source code, just can't find the definition.
>
> >> Could anyone point me to the source file? I really want to know,
> >> thanks in advance.
>
> > It actually inherits IO.read, IIRC
>
> > Source:
> >http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/IO.src/M002270.html
>
> Ruby methods normally return the last thing in the method.
> File.read() will return the contents of the file.
>
> As others said, it inherits from class IO
> Many people just use IO.read() instead because of this.
> you can go into the site ruby directory inside of the ruby directory
> (where you installed ruby) and open the File class files and read them.

I have seen a line of code like

put( File.read(sourceFile),targetFile)

if File.read() return the entire file content, what if sourceFile is a
large file?