From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-09-09T21:15:42+09:00
Subject: Re: different results with File.exists?

2009/9/9 David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com>:
> Hi --
>
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Robert Klemme wrote:
>
>> 2009/9/8 Mehdi Karamnejad <sepehr.online@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> yeah,that was it! thanks ;)
>>
>> Additional hint: use p to debug output what you have. e.g.
>>
>> path=gets
>> p path
>> if File.exists?(path) then
>
> Meta-additional hint: in 1.9, p returns its argument(s), so if you
> have:
>
>  path = gets
>
> you can just change it to:
>
>  p path = gets
>
> which makes for slightly easier back-and-forth between the p version
> and the non-p version.

David, did you rather mean "path = p gets"?  Because "p path = gets"
does work in pre 1.9 already. :-)

Kind regards

robert


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