From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-03-07T07:37:33+09:00
Subject: Re: IO#Foreach  -- Max line length

Tristin Davis wrote:
> I'm trying to emulate the new feature in 1.9 that allows you to specify
> the maximum length of a line read in Ruby 1.8.6.  Can anyone help?

max = 3
count = 0

IO.foreach('data.txt') do |line|
  if count == max
    break
  else
    count += 1
  end

  puts line
end
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