From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-08-25T09:02:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Can I write to DATA?

Hi,

At Sun, 25 Aug 2002 02:21:51 +0900,
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> >>>script_size = __DATA__.pos
> >>
> >>The following script prints -1. Is there some other way to get the
> >>position without parsing?
> >>
> >>---
> >>p DATA.pos
> >>__END__
> >>this is some data.
> > This code gave 19 for me.  What's your ruby version (and
> > release date) and platform?
> 
> puts RUBY_VERSION       # ==> 1.6.7
> puts RUBY_PLATFORM      # ==> i686-linux
> puts RUBY_RELEASE_DATE  # ==> 2002-03-01

All of last 1.4.6, 1.6.7 release and CVS latests of 1.6 and 1.7
worked properly.

> It looks like maybe __DATA__ is in 1.7?

Sorry, it's a typo.

-- 
Nobu Nakada