From: Filip Moens <filip.moens@...>
Date: 2002-03-16T11:57:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading a file Into a string

You can do something like:

mystring = ''
File.open("mytext.txt", "r") { |f|
    mystring = f.read
}

This way, the file gets closed automatically for you.


"Roy J. Milican" <roy@milican.com> wrote in message
news:19041685860.20020315180405@milican.com...
> Greetings,
>
>   I was wondering if there was a method or maybe a more ruby way of
>   reading the contents of a file into a string.  At the moment the
>   following was the only way I could think to do it.
>
> mystring = String::new('')
> myfile = File::open("mytext.txt")
> myfile.each do |line|
>         mystring << line
> end
>
> Thanks,
>
> A Ruby Newbie :)
>
> --
> Roy Milican
> roy@milican.com
>