From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2007-11-25T17:11:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem getting user input

If you do write many scripts that require prompting for user input, you
should check out highline http://highline.rubyforge.org/

enjoy,

-jeremy

On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 03:44:59AM +0900, 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.
> > 
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Sebastian
> 
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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org