From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-08-01T21:43:13+09:00
Subject: Re: How to make a virtual 2nd column!!!

Hi --

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Paul Duncan wrote:

> # process each file passed on the command-line
> # (ruby 1.7 can do this in a slightly more concise manner
> # with File::readlines)
> ARGV.each { |path|
>   File.open(path) { |file|
>     file.each { |line|
>       print_record(line, 35)
>     }
>   }
> }

File.readlines seems to work OK in 1.6.7:

$ ruby -ve 'ARGV.each {|f| p File.readlines(f)}' file1 file2
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i686-linux]
["file 1 line 1\n", "file 1 line 2\n"]
["file 2 line 1\n", "file 2 line 2\n"]

Most concise would probably be:

  ARGF.each {|line| print_record(line,35)}


David

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