From: Sebastian Hungerecker Date: 2007-11-04T21:08:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Robert Klemme wrote: > On 04.11.2007 11:43, sepp2k@googlemail.com wrote: > > If you specify a command line parameter, Kernel#gets treats that as a > > file name and tries to read from that file instead of stdin. > > I am sorry, but this is plain wrong. > > http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005995 I'm sorry, maybe I'm a little slow, but isn't "Returns (and assigns to $_) the next line from the list of files in ARGV (or $*), or from standard input if no files are present on the command line." basically what I said? Or are you refering to the fact that my phrasing made it sound as if gets only cared about the first command line parameter? -- Jabber: sepp2k@jabber.org ICQ: 205544826