From: patrick-may@... (Patrick May)
Date: 2003-02-01T03:07:03+09:00
Subject: question: reading an empty file results in nil

anEmptyFile.read results in nil:

test.rb:

    p RUBY_PLATFORM
    p RUBY_VERSION

    File.open( "test.txt", "w" ) do |f|
        f.write ""
    end

    File.open( "test.txt", "r" ) do |f|
        p f.read
    end

output:

    % ruby test.rb
    "i386-mswin32"
    "1.7.2"
    nil

Is this new behavior?  I'm using the prag installer windows.

~ Patrick May