From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-11-17T02:56:22+09:00
Subject: Re: File Packing Ideas - FINAL

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:56:39PM +0900, Vera, Michael wrote:
> I did not see anything on reading an entire file straight into a string. I
> *did* find that readlines makes each line an array element. I am very
> curious how you read a whole file into a string...?

    s = File.open('file.txt') {|f| f.read}

If I'm not mistaken 1.7 allows you this shortcut:

    s = File.read('file.txt')


Massimiliano