From: Tom Reilly <w3gat@...>
Date: 2013-03-29T08:50:17+09:00
Subject: Re: clear the STDIN

Love U Ruby wrote:
> C:\>irb --simple-prompt
> DL is deprecated, please use Fiddle
>>> STDIN.gets
> I am
> => "I am\n"
>
> Now how to print and clear the content of STDIN?

If you are using short programs where you request something from STDIN 
then want to do a bit of processing then have it print out without 
waiting for some other event do this:


>      $stdout.sync = true
             a = gets.chomp

             # process a

            print "#{a} /n"

Tom Reilly

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