From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-09-02T06:20:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Error with an array of strings

7stud -- wrote:
> $ ri Kernel#gets
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------ Kernel#gets
>      gets(separator=$/)    => string or nil
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      Returns (and assigns to +$_+) the next line from the list of files
>      in +ARGV+ (or +$*+), or from standard input if no files are present
>      on the command line.
> 
> 
> So you can just use gets instead of STDIN.gets.

But only if you never put any arguments on the command line. STDIN.gets 
is safer for exactly this reason, when you actually want to read from 
STDIN.

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