From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2008-08-22T02:36:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Lower verbosity in IRB?

Le 21 ao�t 2008 � 19:07, James Coglan a �crit :

> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

>> logfile=File.open("backup_08192008.log"){|f| f.read()}
>>
>> Normally, its fine that irb will barf out the contents of the file to
>> screen.  Normally it's even useful....

> You need to get the statement to evaluate to something short, preferably
> nil.

irb prints the last statement, in fact.  Just adding ; nil at the end
works.

logfile=File.open("backup_08192008.log"){|f| f.read()} ; nil

(BTW, for the original poster, to slurp a whole file, var =
File.read("...") works too.)

Fred
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