From: Love U Ruby <lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-14T04:45:54+09:00
Subject: Re: How to exit from the forever loop when using "-np" switch ?

`-p` ==> assume loop like -n but print line also like sed.

Now I tried below to see how it works :


    @ubuntu:~$ ruby -p
    hi

    \t
    -:5: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, expecting $end
    @ubuntu:~$

In the above after typing "hi", when I press 'ENTER' got ***blank 
line*** as above. I thought it would give a output as ***hi***.

Now I tried it a bit different way :

    @ubuntu:~$ ruby -p -e '"hi"'
    hi
    hi
    ttt
    ttt
    \t
    \t

But here it seems `-p` worked as expected. But the `Loop` falls into an 
infinite `Loop`.

Can anyone help me to understand why these difference?

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