From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-07-06T16:59:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [How do I:] get what's in $stderr as a string?


On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 06:51 PM, Mark Wilson wrote:

> How do I get access to what's in $stderr in the form of a string?
>
> [snip]

> I'm aware of a way to do something similar provided by Brain Candler 
> in an earlier message:
>
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/71151
>
> I am having trouble following how I might implement the above, and I 
> don't know if it is the answer to the difficulty I am having.
>
> [snip]

I tried Brian's solution and it worked perfectly. I should have tried 
it before asking. I still don't really follow how it works (it's a 
little like magic to me), so any education on that would be good.

I think that a declarative way of accessing the contents of what a 
method writes to stderr would be a good addition to Ruby.

Regards,

Mark Wilson