From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-05-02T19:46:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Search string in a file

Hi --

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Dave Baldwin wrote:

> I find these alternative ways of reading and processing a file  very
> illuminating and makes me appreciate much more the elegance and power
> or ruby.  Would anyone care to add some error handling to them without
> destroying their elegance, as I surely would do.

With trepidation.... :-)

You can always wrap them in a rescue clause:

  begin
    puts File.open("file") {|f| f.grep(/o/)}
  rescue => e
    puts "Problem with IO operation: #{e}"
    exit 1
  end


David

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