From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-08-25T09:32:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Can I write to DATA?

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> 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?

Well, you're right. It works from the command line. I was running it 
from nedit, which for some reason is confused (like me :).