From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-07-20T21:26:45-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04153] ARGF and line numbers


If I have a loop such as

   ARGF.each_line do |line|

      # ...

   end

and I invoke the program with

   ruby dave.rb one two three

then as I read through the files, $FILENAME changes to reflect the
file being read from. However, $. and ARGF.lineno do not get reset to
zero at the start of each file.

I can see arguments both ways, but right now I'm favoring a line
number that reflects an offset into the current file, rather than the
total number of lines read. What do people think?


Regards


Dave