From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2001-12-20T12:08:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29056] Re: Stream?

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:39:09 GMT, Pierre-Charles David
<Pierre-Charles.David@emn.fr> wrote:

>I don't how how ReadStream works, but isn't String#each_byte what
>you're looking for?
>
>% ri String.each_byte 
>------------------------------------------------------- String#each_byte
>     str.each_byte {| aFixnum | block }  -> str
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     Passes each byte in str to the given block.
>        "hello".each_byte {|c| print c, ' ' }
>     produces:
>        104 101 108 108 111

Well, the idea is to set up a stream on a string and then pass it to a
method that expects a file, for testing purposes. So I can do it to
the extent that the method only uses methods that Strings understand.

Ronald E Jeffries
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