From: Joda jenson <jodajen2@...>
Date: 2011-09-30T05:39:07+09:00
Subject: Re: IO.readlines will not accept variable with file name Why?

Robert Klemme wrote in post #1024202:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Joda jenson <jodajen2@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> puts filearray [0]
>> 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.
>
> Insert a line after "gets" like this:
>
> puts "what is the name of the file=>"
> filename1 = gets
> p filename1 # look at the output
>
> filearray = IO.readlines(filename)
> puts filearray [0]
>
> You'll immediately see what's wrong. :-)
>
> Kind regards
>
> robert

Robert I thought I had done that but the .inspect shows I am getting a
"\n" at the end of the string.

Thanks for the help on this sorry for the typo, it was really late when
I
was posting.

What is the easiest why to get the "\n" off the end?

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