From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-08-24T23:22:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?

il Sun, 24 Aug 2003 10:45:11 GMT, "Tristan (kesuari)"
<THE-THING-IN-BRACKETS-IN-MY-NAME@yahoo.com.au> ha scritto::



>------------wc.ruby---------------------------------------
>
>nl = nw = nc = 0
>loop do
>data = (STDIN.read(4096) or break) << (STDIN.gets || "")
>nc += data.length
>nl += data.count("\n")
>((data.strip! || data).tr!("\n", " ") || data).squeeze!
>nw += data.count(" ") + 1
>end
>puts "#{nl} #{nw} #{nc}"
>

emh.. this seems too hard to me! won't this simpler one be equivalnt?
----wc2.rb
nl = nw = nc = 0
STDIN.each do |line|
 nl+=1ine
 nw+=line.split.size
 nc+=line.size
end
puts "#{nl} #{nw} #{nc}"