From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-12-06T03:28:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to read data?

Hi --

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Jason Persampieri wrote:

> Interesting.
>
> A little bit of testing shows that
>
> ruby foo.rb < foo.rb
>
> works, while
>
> foo.rb < foo.rb
>
> gives the error Chirstopher is seeing.  Why would this
> be?

Maybe if it's running as an executable without a #! line
(so the shell/OS doesn't know it's a Ruby program).

> Also, I'm surprised noone recommended 'readlines'
> foo.rb
>   puts readlines
>
> works fine for me... nice and clean

It's different though; it doesn't output anything until EOF
(as opposed to one line at a time).

  print while gets

might do it (if one doesn't mind the Perlian magic :-)


David

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