From: Jeffrey Smith <jesmith2095@...>
Date: 2011-09-04T07:27:06+09:00
Subject: Re: opening a file with variable name

Hello Hassan,

Thanks for the quick response. When I do a puts "path", this is what I get: \\faxgw04\c$\myapp\jobs\Processed\7.7.7\App Fax Service\sd3n4v1.20110902.1024.55435838.JMym.txt". This is the path to the file I want to open.

Jeff


On Sep 3, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Hassan Schroeder wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Jeffrey Smith <jesmith2095@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have tried File.open(variable), but I always get an error message stating "Invaild argument - path to file (Errno::EINVAL).
> 
> ruby-1.9.2-p290 > variable = "foo.txt"
> => "foo.txt"
> ruby-1.9.2-p290 > File.open(variable)
> => #<File:foo.txt>
> ruby-1.9.2-p290 >
> 
> In the above case I know there's a file with that name in the same
> directory where I started irb.
> 
> Maybe you should look at what your variable actually contains...
> 
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