From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu.nokada@...>
Date: 2002-04-24T17:55:27+09:00
Subject: Re: My First Time

Hi,

At Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:29:05 +0900,
Thorsten Haude wrote:
> Because Ruby has a lot of qualities that are quite different from
> other languages, I would like to ask you to have a look over my
> program and tell me where I break conventions or what else could be
> done better. It's a fortune clone.
> 
> - - - Schnipp - - -
> #!  /usr/bin/ruby -w
> 
> fileName = "/home/yooden/.mail/keywords";
> sigDivider = '~###~'

If you want to split the file by exact "~###~" lines,

  sigDivider = "~###~\n"
  sigs = IO.readlines(fileName, sigDivider).each {|s|
    s.chomp!(sigDivider)
  }
  print sigs[rand(sigs.size)]

-- 
Nobu Nakada