From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2010-10-23T22:42:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-Hard Coded File.open(newFile)

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Grant Curell <grantcurell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Like a lot of people I'm new to Ruby and I'm trying to do something I
> thought would be pretty simple. I want the user to give me input in the
> form of a filename and then subsequently open the file. Here is what I
> have so far:

>  def initialize()
>    @fileToParse = fileToParse #I get user input in the form of gets in
>                               #another class.

Are you removing the newline at the end of the string from `gets` ?

> F:/Programming/eclipseWorkspace/CSE_655/file_handler.rb:8:in
> `initialize': Invalid argument - C:/Users/grant/Desktop/test.txt

Probably actually "C:/Users/grant/Desktop/test.txt\n" right here ^

> (Errno::EINVAL)

HTH,
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