From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-09-18T16:53:20+09:00
Subject: Why IO#readlines does'nt accept a Regexp?

as in the subject, I just noticed that readlines just accepts a string
as line Separator, and I wonder why it works this way.
Some explanations?

BTW, if I want to read a file in a array of 'words' I have to do :


File.new('myfile').gets(nil).split 

no better way ?

on a sidenote, what are the efficiency issue related to the use of
IO#each vs IO#foreach(anIO) vs a simple 'while line=gets..'  ?