From: Damjan Rems <d_rems@...>
Date: 2008-03-06T16:24:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Too many open files on OpenBSD

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems you recursively call parse, which keep files opened.  How
> about reading whole file content in a string by File.read, then call
> each_line on the string?  E.g.
> 
>   def parse()
>     File.read(@path).each_line do |line|
>       line =~ /^(.*?) (.*)/
> 
>       ....
>     end
>   end

Or even better:

   def parse()
     lines = File.open(@path) {|f| f.read}
     lines.each_line do |line|
       line =~ /^(.*?) (.*)/

       ....
     end
   end

With File.open file gets closed automaticly after block is processed.

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TheR
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