From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2002-03-26T05:39:35+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby -n -e doesn't find things ...

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:38:13 GMT, matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In message "Re: ruby -n -e doesn't find things ..."
>    on 02/03/26, Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@REMOVEacm.org> writes:
>
>|B, is there a way to tell Ruby to open the files in binary mode when doing a one
>|liner from the command line, i.e. with -n or -p?
>
>How about the following?
>
>  ruby -ne 'BEGIN{ARGF.binmode}; ....}

Cool, I'll make a note of that.

Do you agree that the eof? method should be doing the same thing in binmode and
in text mode? If not ... what am I missing?

Thanks!

Ronald E Jeffries
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