From: Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Date: 2002-02-27T00:32:11+09:00
Subject: Trouble with opening files

I just can't wrap my head around why this little program doesn't work:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
$stdout.sync= true
File.open("~/ruby/sample/testFile", "r")
a = testFile.gets
puts a

It says:
TestAFile.rb:3:in `open': No such file or directory -
"~/ruby/sample/testFile" (Errno::ENOENT)
        from TestAFile.rb:3

but:
[dslstat473:~/ruby/sample] chrisg% cat testFile
Hello World!
[dslstat473:~/ruby/sample] chrisg%

As always, Thanks for helping.
-- 
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -Abraham
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