From: "Eric I." <rubytraining@...>
Date: 2008-06-05T06:19:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner: Read file

On Jun 4, 2:25 pm, David Masover <ni...@slaphack.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 June 2008 12:31:58 Michael Linfield wrote:
>
> > File.open("myfile") do |file|
> > file.each_byte {|x| puts x}
> > end
>
> > The value of 'x' will be in ascii, I'll let you figure out how to
> > translate ascii back into text :)
>
> I believe that's why each_byte is depricated -- each_char will read each
> character, even when a character is more than a byte.

Well, unless I'm mistaken....

Ruby 1.8.6 has IO#each_byte but not IO#each_char.

Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9 have both IO#each_byte and IO#each_char, but
neither deprecates IO#each_byte since it's still useful for processing
byte-oriented (i.e., binary) files/streams.

Eric

====

LearnRuby.com offers Rails & Ruby HANDS-ON public & ON-SITE
workshops.
   Ruby Fundamentals Wkshp          June 16-18     Ann Arbor, Mich.
   Ready for Rails Ruby Wkshp       June 23-24     Ann Arbor, Mich.
   Ruby on Rails Wkshp              June 25-27     Ann Arbor, Mich.
   Ruby Plus Rails Combo Wkshp      June 23-27     Ann Arbor, Mich
Please visit http://LearnRuby.com for all the details.