From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-10-30T21:54:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a better way to do this? (write something to a file

Hi --

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Chris Richards wrote:

> Is there a better way to write text to a file?
>
> File.open("/file/location/new.txt","w") {|file| file.write "data to
> write"}
>
> It just seems a bit long winded and unmessy

Are you sure you mean unmessy? :-) In any case -- I agree, it does
have a bit of overhead, and always seems like a lot to write when just
writing one thing. It pays for itself when the block contains more
logic, of course.

You could do:

(File.open("file","w") << data).close

though that makes the writing seem kind of side-effect-esque.


David

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