From: montana <montana@...99.bsd.st>
Date: 2002-11-16T04:20:36+09:00
Subject: Simple Newbie IO question.

Hi Everyone-

I'm reading the "Pick-axe" book. In the chapter on IO it discusses File.open.

Straight from the book:
File.open("testfile", "r") do |aFile|

# ... process the file

end

I tried something similar in irb:
irb(main):001:0> File.open("testfile", "w") do |aFIle|
irb(main):002:1*   aFile << "Hello,\nWorld!"
irb(main):003:1> end
NameError: undefined local variable or method `aFile' for #<Object:0x153cd8>
        from (irb):2
        from (irb):1:in `open'
        from (irb):1

What am I doing wrong here??

What is the correct way to pass a string to a file and then open that file again to read it?

Thanks.
SA