From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-11-29T20:32:34+09:00
Subject: Re: loop starting not from beginning

Hi,

At Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:16:30 +0900,
Phlip wrote:
> New question. What, if anything, is wrong with this?
> 
>  File.open("test").readlines.slice(5..-1) do |line|
>         p line
>  end
> 
> I ask because I've experienced trouble treating the return value of open as 
> a file object, without the magic block mode.

I'm not sure what trouble you've experienced, perhaps the file
wasn't closed.

  IO.readlines("test").slice(5..-1)

will work.

And regarding original post,

  open("test") do |f|
    4.times {f.readline}
    f.each {|line| p line}
  end

-- 
Nobu Nakada