From: Joda jenson <jodajen2@...>
Date: 2011-09-29T18:14:24+09:00
Subject: IO.readlines will not accept variable with file name Why?

I am fairly new to Ruby and I am stuck on this.  Would someone have a
suggestion.

I'm trying to read a file with IO.readlines, letting a user give the
file name.
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puts "what is the name of the file=>"
filename1 = gets

filearray = IO.readlines(filename)
puts filearray [0]
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If I hard code the file name works great.

filearray = IO.readlines("/home/user/file.txt")

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It seems to be something to do with the double quotes.
I have tried to wrap the variable with double quotes.

filename1 = ("\"/home/user/file.txt\"")

It will print the Double quote but still will not work if I pass it to
the IO.readlines()

It gives a (Errno::ENOENT)

It doesn't seem to matter how I doctor a string with quotes I can't get
IO.readlines() to accept it.  Only hard coding it works for some reason.

Thanks for any help.

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