From: Christian Kruse <ckruse@...>
Date: 2002-02-27T00:35:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Trouble with opening files

Hello Chris,

Tuesday, February 26, 2002, 4:32:11 PM, you wrote:

> 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%

I think, it should work when you write

File.open("/home/chrisg/ruby/sample/testFile","r")

Most programming languages do not wrap '~' to your home
directory.

-- 
Best regards,
 Christian                            mailto:ckruse@wwwtech.de