From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2008-03-04T02:37:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Loading a file in a buffer...

On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Zangief Ief wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I would like to load the exact content of a file in a buffer (with the
> same carriage return). To do so, I had trying this:
>
> file = File.open('/home/my_file')
>
> To verify if that work normally, I had try to add this for display the
> content of my_file:
>
> puts file
>
> But my_file was not been printed, and I got: #<File:0x28d70>
>
>
> If you know a way to do so, please help me :)


Try

    buffer = IO.read('/home/my_file')

or

    buffer = File.read('/home/my_file')

They both do the same thing because File inherits 'read' from IO.

Regards, Morton