From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2008-11-16T05:22:30+09:00
Subject: Re: IO#lineno= doesn't work the way I expected

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On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 04:54:01AM +0900, Michael Guterl wrote:
> >
> > I would think if it had the behavior you described, the second time
> > f.gets is called, we would see: "This is line one thousand and one\n"
> > not "This is line two\n"
> >
> Or maybe even "This is line one thousand\n".  I'm not sure...

Okay, so . . .

  1. What the hell is the point of IO#lineno=3D if it does the same thing
  as IO#lineno except that it lets you specify a number that doesn't do
  anything?

  2. Is there a way to do what I actually need -- specifically, to
  iterate over an entire file *except* the first line, only reading one
  line at a time into RAM -- without writing a C extension for Ruby?

--=20
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Paul Graham: "Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way
to write spaghetti code."

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