From: mike@... (Mike Stok)
Date: 2002-02-20T04:08:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Perl IO to Ruby IO help needed

In article <pan.2002.02.19.10.35.51.115391.14861@agilent.com>,
Craig Files wrote:

>  I want to convert the following lines from Perl to Ruby.  And I cannot
> figure out how to load the file into memory:
> 
> The Perl file:
> 
> open (DEF, "<$input_def") || die "$0: cannot read $input_def\n";
> $/ = undef;		# read the entire file...
> $_ = <DEF>;		# ...into memory
> close(DEF);

[...]

What about sonething like

content = nil
input_def = '/etc/passwd'
 
File.open(input_def, 'r') { |f|
    content = f.read
}
 
puts "got >>>#{content}<<<";

you can catch the exceptions if you want to handle the open errors yourself.

Hope this helps,

Mike

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