From: Peter Vanderhaden <bostonantifan@...>
Date: 2007-09-30T23:06:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help getting user input

Sebastian,
FYI, the reason I'm sending the prompt to STDERR instead of STDOUT is 
that I've used reopen to redirect STDOUT to a file.  I did that because 
I want to write data to a file.  I'm new to this, so if there's a better 
way to write to the file, I'm all ears :)
PETERV

Peter Vanderhaden wrote:
> Sebastian,
> My Ruby installation must be corrupt, as it doesn't recognize gets. 
> When I try your solution, I get the following error message:
> 
> D:/scripts/ruby/f0.rb:10:in `gets': Bad file descriptor (Errno::EBADF)
>   from D:/scripts/ruby/f0.rb:10
> 
> I'd assume the best way to correct this would be to reinstall Ruby? 
> Would you agree?
> 
> Thanks,
> PETERV
> 
> 
> Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:
> 
>> Peter Vanderhaden wrote:
>>>   print STDERR "Enter option: ";
>> 
>> The ruby equivalent of this would be  STDERR.print "Enter option: "  but 
>> why
>> STDERR? That hardly looks like an error message to me.
>> 
>>>   chomp ($option = <STDIN>);
>> 
>> That would be  gets.chomp  or  STDIN.gets.chomp  if you want to make 
>> sure that
>> you read from STDIN.
>> 
>>> I've searched the web and several books, but I haven't found anything
>>> that works.  It also seems that my system doesn't recognize "gets".
>> 
>> Your system is not supposed to recognize gets. If your ruby does not 
>> recognize
>> gets, there is something seriously wrong with your ruby installation.
>> 
>> 
>> HTH,
>> Sebastian

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