From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-01-01T00:05:00+09:00
Subject: Re: using reg expr with array.index

On 31.12.2007 08:14, MonkeeSage wrote:
> Ps. ruby will normally close open file handles on garbage collection
> or in finalization, but just in case of some catastrophic failure
> (what, I'm not sure), it's usually considered good practice to close
> file handles manually:
> 
> ...
>      file=File.open(ARGV[0])
>      data=file.readlines
>      file.close
> ...

... in which case I'd rather use the block form because then the FH is 
closed under all circumstances.

File.open ARGV[0] do |file|
   data = file.readlines
end

Although in this case you can simply do

date = File.readlines ARGV[0]

:-)

Kind regards

	robert