From: Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...>
Date: 2011-09-29T21:55:51+09:00
Subject: Re: IO.readlines will not accept variable with file name Why?

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On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:

> Peter Vandenabeele wrote in post #1024204:
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Robert Klemme
> > <shortcutter@googlemail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> > filearray = IO.readlines(filename)
> >> >
> >> Insert a line after "gets" like this:
> >>
> > I am not sure.
> >
> > I think it is a simple typo in that
> >
> >   filename1  (with a digit)
> >
> > is asked by the get, but
> >
> >   filename (without a digit)
> >
> > is used in the call to IO.readlines.
> >
> > IMHO, the code as shown above could never work with that typo ...
>
> Yes, but if that were the case the error wouldn't be Errno::ENOENT.
>

Ah thanks,

Peter

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