From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T04:56:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Why doesn't this file read work for me?

> If you only want to check whether stuff contains that substring, I think 
> you
> should use String#match, not String#scan. String#match returns an object 
> of
> class MatchData if there's a match and nil otherwise, which allows you 
> to use
> the conditional like you did your code (check the ri documentation for
> String#scan and String#match for more details).
> 
> By the way, why do you call to_s on the result of File.open ? Isn't it 
> already
> a string?
> 
> I hope this helps
> 
> Stefano

Yup. This helps a lot. I used .match and it worked beautifully.
Regarding the .to_s thing, that's just me being neurotic and thinking I
needed it. No, I don't need it.
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