From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2007-12-19T05:59:47+09:00
Subject: Re: New to ruby

bigbrother wrote:
>> Drew Olson wrote:
>>> File.open("my_log.txt") do |line|
>>>   user = line.scan(/US=(\w+)/).flatten.first
>>>   user_requests[user] += 1
>>> end
>
> Cool, thanks. When I'm trying it though I get
> Joshua$./test.rb
> ./test.rb:4: private method `scan' called for #<File:access.log
> (...)
> What does that mean?

It means that you're calling scan on line when line is File object which 
doesn't have scan. If you change File.open to File.foreach, line will 
actually be a line of the file (i.e. a string) and the code will work.


HTH,
Sebastian
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