From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2003-12-12T07:55:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Appending to an array

Thomas Adam wrote:

>vthread << File.new(pathname,
>"r").readlines().to_s().grep(/^foobar/).uniq()
>  
>

The << operator for array only appends the single object given to the 
end of the array--it does not concatenate one array onto another.  What 
you probably want is the += operator:

  vthread += File.new(...).grep(/^foobar/).uniq()

(Assuming, of course, that vthread is an array.)

-- 
Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu

ruby -h | ruby -e 'a=[];readlines.join.scan(/-(.)\[e|Kk(\S*)|le.l(..)e|#!(\S*)/) {|r| a << r.compact.first };puts "\n>#{a.join(%q/ /)}<\n\n"'