From: Bruce Williams <bruce@...>
Date: 2002-11-16T04:28:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple Newbie IO question.

On Friday 15 November 2002 02:20 pm, montana wrote:

> 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??
>

You misspelled |aFile|

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

If you mean write a string to a file, close and reopen to read it, it could be 
done:

File::open('afile', 'w'){ |file| file << aString }
# sometime later...
var = File::open('afile'){ |file| file.read }

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