[ruby-talk:8452] Re: string like istringstream (was: A bug inruby)

Hello Jean,

I had tried to send you a personal mail, but unfortunately it bounced back with

  Deferred: Connection refused by schur.institut.math.jussieu.fr.

so I post it to clr this time.


>>>>> "Jean" == Jean Michel <[e-mail]> writes:

    Jean> In article <[e-mail]>, Kevin Smith
    Jean> <[e-mail]> wrote:
    >> [e-mail] wrote:
    >> 
    >>> On another topic, is there a way in ruby to have a string
    >>> behave as a file (something like the 'istringstrem' class of
    >>> C++ ?)

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    Jean> I do not think this solves my problem. I will give the

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    Jean>  Now, I want to re-use my code to parse an ID3V3 tag sitting
    Jean> in a string in memory. In C++, I can just make the string
    Jean> into an istringstream and share the same code.  I don't see

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    Jean> since neither String nor IO is a module. What did I miss
    Jean> here?

Nothing! Ruby has not such a thingy officially. But I have written a
small library that should do what you need. Unfortunately I never had
time to write the corresponding documentation for it.

But perhaps you could use it anyway. If you want you can get that lib
under:

  http://me.in-berlin.de/~qiao

Download the file stringio.tar.gz then. Installation is very
easy. Simply unpack the archive and put StringIO.rb into an directory
that will is contained in ruby's variable $: 

The file testStringIO.rb contains, you guessed it, a script to test
the functionalities. You could use it as example ...


    Jean>   Best regards, Jean MICHEL

HTH,
\cle