From: patrick-may@... (Patrick May)
Date: 2002-03-16T15:17:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading from a string

David Corbin <dcorbin@imperitek.com> wrote in message news:<3C928904.4090908@imperitek.com>...
> Is there a class that provides the IO interface from a String?  It seems 
> hard to believe that there isn't one.  I've looked around, but can't 
> actually find an implementation.

Depending on your purposes, it's not that difficult to whip one up.  I
built a simple one to catch output from eval'd eruby code in rubytalk
34428:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/34428

If you need to duplicate all the behavior of an IO, it would be more
difficult, but probably not prohibitive over a weekend.

~ Patrick May