From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-03-01T12:03:09+09:00
Subject: Re: telnet - how to loop through commands listed in a file

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Bob Ford <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I looked at my for loop and saw that I didn't even use the correct
> variable in the loop...  I change it but received the same error.
>
> I tried the mentioned:
>         File.open ("CMDs.txt").each
>         { | line |
>         telnet.cmd (line.gsub("\"","")) { ...}
>         }
> But that failed with the following:
> C:/Ruby Scripts/TelnetCMDs.rb:56: syntax error, unexpected tLPAREN_ARG,
> expecting $end
> telnet.cmd (line.gsub("\"","")) { |c| print c }

File.open(..) passes a file handle to the block. If you want to spin
through each line in a loop, try:

File.readlines("CMDs.txt").each do |line|
  telnet.cmd(line.gsub("\"", "")) { ... }
end

To stay with .open:

File.open("CMDs.txt") do |cmds|
  telnet.cmd(cmds.gets.gsub("\"", "")) { ... |
end