From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-08-17T15:50:22+09:00
Subject: Re: while !file.eof?

2009/8/17 botp <botpena@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Derek
> Smith<derekbellnersmith@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> How can I use a while loop in such as way where I want to process the
>> file until EOF?
>
> on your case, you do not need the EOF sig. Pls read on ruby's
> iterators and File.
>
>>....
>> File.open(mailog, 'r+').each { |line|
>>        while !mailog.eof?
>>            if line =~ /^#{last_record}/o
>>                p line
>>            end
>>        end
>> }
>
>
> try eg,
>
> File.open( "maillog" ).each do |line|
>  p line if line =~ /^#{last_record}/
> end

You're not closing the file handle properly. :-)

Better:

File.foreach "maillog" do |line|
  p line if /^#{last_record}/o =~ line
end

Kind regards

robert

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