From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-08-11T22:20:39+09:00
Subject: Re: empty file returns nil not empty string?

>>>>> "T" == =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas S=F8ndergaard?= <iso-8859-1> writes:

T> In ruby-1.6.7 reading an empty file returns an empty string before returning
T> nil. 1.7.2 doesn't do that - why?

 Can you give an example ?

pigeon% ls -al aa
-rw-r--r--    1 ts       ts              0 Aug 11 15:06 aa
pigeon% 

pigeon% ruby -ve 'a = File.open("aa"); while b = a.gets; p b; end'
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i686-linux]
pigeon% 


Guy Decoux