From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-03-11T05:59:37+09:00
Subject: Re: saving array

il 10 Mar 2004 12:36:16 -0800, mopthisandthat@hotmail.com (Phidippus)
ha scritto::

>After I do bunch of computations and create a huge array with bunch of
>numbers, I like to use the already-computed array in another program
>rather than re-computing it each time I run the program. How can I
>save the array object in one program and read it from another program
>in ruby?

$irb
irb(main):001:0> Marshal.dump([1,2,3],open('ary.dat','w+'))
=> #<File:ary.dat>
irb(main):002:0> exit

$ls -l ary.dat
-rw-r--r--    1 gabriele Administ       10 Mar 10 20:55 ary.dat

$irb
irb(main):001:0> Marshal.load(open('ary.dat'))
=> [1, 2, 3]