From: bobx@... (Bob)
Date: 2002-10-22T01:54:07+09:00
Subject: functional Ruby equiv to this perl snippet

# parses a text file looking for server names and ignoring lines
# with start with the pound/hash sign.

sub load_server_list {
    $filename = "serverlist.txt";
    open (SERVERLIST, $filename) or die "Can't open $filename:$!";
    
	$i = 0;
           while (defined ($servername = <SERVERLIST>)) {
	     if ($servername ne "\n") {
		if (substr($servername,0,1) ne "#") {
                  chomp ($servername);
                  $servers[$i] = "$servername";
		  $i = $i + 1;
		}
	     }
        }
	close (SERVERLIST);
	$server_count = $i;
}

I am trying to convert a perl script I like to Ruby and I am not very
good at either!

Thanks!

Bob