From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-01-26T08:21:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Regurgitating the contents of a file

If you don't want the whole file in-memory, maybe look at copy_stream
from file_utils:

  http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/rdoc/1.9/classes/FileUtils.html#M001407

Cheers,
Sam

Quoteing dcarrera@math.umd.edu, on Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:16:01AM +0900:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:07:46AM +0900, Philip Mak wrote:
> > What's the shortest way to regurgitate the contents of a file? I mean
> > like this:
> > 
> > # Perl code
> > open(FILE, "filename.txt");
> > print while <FILE>;
> > close(FILE);
> > 
> > Can I do something like:
> > 
> > stdout << File.new("filename.txt");
> > 
> > or something?
> 
> puts File.open("filename.txt").to_a
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
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