From: Adam Steinfurth Date: 2008-12-20T05:04:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Sleep ------=_Part_35796_10362131.1229717562451 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline STDOUT.flush Did exactly what I wanted and it was an easy fix. I would have never figured that out. Thank you. Adam On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Michael Fellinger wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Adam Steinfurth > wrote: > > This program is very simple. It is suppose to load in the text file, > load > > each character into an array, then print out the array one letter at a > > time. It is supposed to wait 1 second each time it prints. This freezes > > every time I run it. Any ideas? > > > > Adam > > > > > > class Slow_Array > > > > def array_split > > @f = File.open('Text_for_TextReader.txt','r') do |f| > > f.gets.scan(/\w/) > > end > > end > > > > def print_and_wait > > @f.each { > > |i| > > print i > > sleep 1 > > } > > end > > > > end > > > > #------------------------------------------------- > > # Main logic > > TextReader = Slow_Array.new > > > > # Bring file into program > > TextReader.array_split > > > > # Print each character, waiting one second in between each printing > > TextReader.print_and_wait > > You can either: > > $stdout.sync = true > > or: > > class SlowArray > def slow_each > File.open('Text_for_TextReader.txt') do |file| > while line = file.gets > puts line > sleep 1 > end > end > end > > SlowArray.new.slow_each > > ^ manveru > > -- Put your computer to work. www.volunteerathome.com ------=_Part_35796_10362131.1229717562451--