From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-05-31T10:54:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshall and StringIO objects


"ahoward" <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> wrote in message
> does it not make sense that this should work?
>
> ~ > irb -r stringio
> irb(main):001:0> Marshal.dump 'foobar', StringIO.new
> TypeError: instance of IO needed
>         from (irb):1:in `dump'
>         from (irb):1

C:\>irb -r stringio
irb(main):001:0> sio = Marshal.dump('foobar',StringIO.new)
=> #<StringIO:0x27c7a10>
irb(main):002:0> Marshal.load(sio)
EOFError: End of file reached
        from (irb):2:in `load'
        from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0> quit

C:\>irb -v
irb 0.9(02/07/03)

C:\>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-05-26) [i386-mswin32]