From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-12-20T15:41:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7747] Re: String as IO and/or File object?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:7743] Re: String as IO and/or File object?"
    on 00/12/20, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> writes:

|> If that doesn't answer your question, please 
|> indicate what methods of IO you would like to 
|> apply to a string.

Almost of output operations are via 'write' method, so that any object
which responds to 'write' can be the target of output.

|For what it's worth, I'd like to have the reverse of this -- an IO as a 
|String (or as something that derives from astring) via mmap.  I would find 
|this very useful in that I could simply do something like:
|
|mf = open("bigimage", "r").to_mmap("r")
|mf.scan(/.../)...

Pretty interesting.  I wish to see the extension which implements this.
I prefer just 'mmap' over 'to_mmap' though.

							matz.