From: Alan Claughan <alan@...>
Date: 2009-04-23T04:54:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Error when reading file from command prompt

Oops that should be :

puts 'Enter Filename: '
$stdout.flush
filename = gets.chomp

inputfile = File.new(filename, 'r')

:-)



On 22 Apr 2009, at 9:49 PM, Alan Claughan wrote:

> Wow you seem to be a little confused her
>
> in line 1 you try to get a inputFile name from a print statement.
>
> You actually get the filename with line 3.
>
> line 4 is unnecessary as gets returns a string anyway.
>
> So you can do :
>
> puts 'Enter Filename: '
> $stdout.flush
> filename = gets.chomp
>
> inputfile = File.new(filename, 'w')
>
> Alan.
>
> On 22 Apr 2009, at 6:02 PM, Mmcolli00 Mom wrote:
>
>> inputFile = print("Enter Filename: ")
>> $stdout.flush
>> input = gets
>> myinput = input.to_s
>>
>> f = File.new(myinput) <-- in 'initialize': Invalid argument -  
>> filename
>> (Errno::EINAL) from crb.rb in 'new'
>
>