From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2008-12-11T12:55:14+09:00
Subject: Re: copy txt file - only copies 1/3 of the file - what happened?

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@yahoo.com> wrote:
> File.open('oldFile.txt', 'r') do |f1| #file contains XML type data
>     m = f1.gets

ok, this gets just one line of text fr f1

>     File.open('newFile.txt','w') do |f2| #newFile to separate data in
> oldFile
>     f2.puts m.split("<")

and you placed that one line on f2

>  end
> end

and that is all. you just copied one line.

hint: File.open by itself does not loop.