From: Rob Biedenharn <rob@...>
Date: 2013-02-15T03:27:33+09:00
Subject: Re: file size of each item in file list


On Feb 14, 2013, at 12:32 PM, Joel Pearson wrote:

> Robert Klemme wrote in post #1096937:
>> Even worse: File.read will ignore the block.  It's simply never
>> executed.  Otherwise one would see an error.
> 
> I didn't notice this, it should have been
> contentsArray = File.read('/tmp/lg_files').split $/

If you want the entire set of lines, just use

contentsArray = File.readlines('/tmp/lg_files')

http://apidock.com/ruby/v1_9_3_125/IO/readlines/class