From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-06-25T23:52:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Highline giving EOFERROR, input stream exhausted

On Jun 25, 2010, at 5:36 AM, R.. Kumar wrote:

> I am first taking multiline input from user. User may end input using
> Ctr-d.
> 
> Then I use highline's menu and get:
> /opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/highline-1.5.2/lib/highline.rb:603:in
> `get_line': The input stream is exhausted. (EOFError)

Interesting.  Your code does work for me:

$ cat multi-read.rb 
#!/usr/bin/env ruby -wKU

require "rubygems"
require "highline/import"

def get_lines
  lines = nil
  $stdin.each_line do |line|
    line.chomp!
    if line =~ /^bye$/
      break
    end
    if lines
      lines << "\n" + line
    else
      lines = line
    end
  end
  return lines
end

def _choice prompt, choices
  puts "got: #{prompt} ::: #{choices} "
  STDIN.reopen '/dev/tty'
  choose do |menu|
    menu.prompt = prompt
    menu.choices(choices) do |n|  return n; end
  end
end

p get_lines
_choice "?  ", "A choice"

__END__
$ ruby multi-read.rb 
one
two
three
"one\ntwo\nthree"
got: ?   ::: A choice 
1. A choice
?  1
"A choice"

I used Control-D to stop the multi-line entry there.

What platform are you on and what version of Ruby are you using?

James Edward Gray II