From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-08-22T00:42:07+09:00
Subject: Re: possible simple marshall error


On Aug 21, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Lex Williams wrote:

> I recently tried to learn to use Marshal with a simple script , but I
> keep getting the following exception : x.rb:6:in `load': marshal data
> too short (ArgumentError)
>
> This is the script :
>
> hsh = {:first => [1,2,3],:second => [4,5,6] }
>
> File.open("saved.m","w").puts(Marshal.dump(hsh))
>
> str = (File.open("saved.m").read)
> hix = Marshal.load(str) # this appears to be the problem line
> hix.each_key do |key|
>        puts "key : #{key}"
> end
>
> could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong ?
> --  


you are probably on windows and have forgotten to open the file in  
binary mode.  also, you are re-writing the built-in pstore class, so  
you might want to just use that - or at least read over it.

regards.

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
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