From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-09-18T17:01:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Why IO#readlines does'nt accept a Regexp?

On Thursday, September 18, 2003, 5:53:20 PM, gabriele wrote:

> 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?

Sorry, none from me ;)


> 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 ?

File.read('myfile').split


> 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..'  ?

All of these read the file one line at a time and present that line to
the user.  It's hard to imagine any performance difference between
them.

Gavin