From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-11-24T06:36:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem getting user input

On Nov 23, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Peter Vanderhaden wrote:

> Sebastian,
> THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
> The $stdin.gets works perfectly!  I really appreciate all you
> experienced folks helping out this newbie!  I'm going to hilight this
> stuff in PickAxe when I get done.
> PV
>
> Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:
>> Peter Vanderhaden wrote:
>>> If I use gets, the script just prints the prompt and seems to end.
>>
>> I see in your script that ARGV is not empty. That means  
>> Kernel#gets is
>> gonna read from the files in ARGV and not from stdin. To rectify that
>> use $stdin.gets instead. Or empty ARGV before you call gets.

Speaking of ARGV, you don't need this line in your code:

  45       @ARGV = $*   # list of arguments passed to the script

Just use the pre-defined ARGV instead of @ARGV

Regards, Morton