From: Maik Schmidt <contact@...>
Date: 2003-12-24T18:06:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Slurping a file like in Perl

Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> I want to slurp up two files and substitute one file in another for a symbol
> in that file's data.  In Perl I may simply do this all in memory.  Is there a
> limit in Ruby string size that prevents this, or is there an easier more elegant
> way about it?  Thanks

There was a very interesting article about file slurping on perl.com 
some weeks ago: http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/2003/11/21/slurp.html.

Maybe you can benefit from it, because the IO functions that were used 
are also available in Ruby. At least you should benefit from the test 
suite. I thought about porting this to Ruby but currently I am a bit 
short of time. Maybe you want to try it?

Merry christmas,

   <maik/>