From: Johnathan Smith <stu_09@...>
Date: 2007-12-04T00:57:03+09:00
Subject: read file and print contents - beginner

hello,

im new to ruby and i have a text file and want to read in the file
and print it out.

so far iv got the following. I'd greatly appreciate any help.

thanks.

text file (reference.txt):
Tag: ref1
Type: Book
Author: Little, S R

ruby file:
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
#
#
# read file and print
#
  ARGV.each do |fn|
    begin
      (fn == '-' ? STDIN :  File.open(fn)).each_line do |l|
  if $indent > 0
    (1..$indent).each { print ' ' }
        end
  puts l
      end
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