From: Philip Rhoades <phil@...>
Date: 2013-04-19T17:40:57+09:00
Subject: "gets" overwrites string - why does this happen?

People,

If I run this script with a text filename parameter:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

puts $*
filename = $*
puts filename
gets
puts $_
puts filename

- the last puts is empty!  Why does this happen?

Thanks,

Phil.
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