From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2008-11-16T05:42:18+09:00
Subject: Re: IO#lineno= doesn't work the way I expected

Chad Perrin wrote:
>   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?

Why not iterate over the entire file and just ignore the first line? 
IO#readline or IO#gets will get you a line at a time.

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