From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-22T10:46:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7928] Re: New to Ruby

takaoueda@my-deja.com writes:

> Now I am at page 51. I tried the code at the bottom of this page, and
> got an error message,
>     undefined method `squeeze!' for nil (Name Error).
> Is this a bug in ruby 1.6.1?  Without this one line it produced the
> expected output. In my trial, songFile was changed to DATA, and the
> contents of the file on top of page 53 were written after the source
> code with the heading line __END__.

No, I think it's because you have a blank line in your data, so the
#split method is not finding any fields, to the assignment is setting
the variables to nil.


Regards


Dave