From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2003-01-28T16:35:13+09:00
Subject: Re: loop while

Hi,

Tim Bates <tim@bates.id.au> writes:

> Why can't I do:
> 
>   loop while t.gets !~ /[Cc]onnected/
> 
> Is there a similarly terse but readable way of doing this? I just want to 
> throw away all input until I reach the 'connected' line (assuming t is a 
> TCPSocket...)

while t.gets !~ /[Cc]onnect/ do end
begin end while t.gets !~ /[Cc]onnect/
until t.gets =~ /[Cc]onnect/ do end
begin end until t.gets =~ /[Cc]onnect/
loop do break if t.gets =~ /[Cc]onnect/ end

If the string 'connected' is fixed, you can specify by the
argument of gets.

t.gets("connected\n")

-- 
eban