From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-06-22T00:42:36+09:00
Subject: Re: reading text line

"Dan" <falseflyboy@yahoo.comNONO> wrote in message
> i want to read a line of string from a file every other line
>
> line one
> line two
> line three
> line four
>
> want it to print
>
> line one
> line three
>

Simple solution (without error handling):

f = File.open("testfile","r")
while(!f.eof)
    s = f.gets
    puts s
    f.gets
end
f.close