From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-11-18T03:18:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Read a file...

>>>>> "B" == Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> writes:

B> Thanks!  I've experienced comparable behavior in returning
B> values from the File.open block... which led to my question
B> about whether the statement in ri and Pickaxe about File.open
B> returning nil when a block is given, is correct?

 Well, ruby make something like this (when it has a block)

   file = File.open("test.dat", "r")
   begin
      yield file
   ensure
      close file
   end

 'begin' ... 'ensure'  return the value of the last expression (yield in
 this case) if it don't have an error



Guy Decoux