From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-01-18T23:29:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9514] Re: reading an entire file as a string

>>>>> "D" == Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

D> matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
>> I think it won't.  there cannot be "initial offset" for each
>> invocation of IO#read.  Do you think you need "pre-read skip offset"
>> for IO#read?

D> Personally, I think it's go for consistency here. If you treated the
D> offset as an absolute seek (SEEK_SET),

 ??? I don't understand

 If you use offset for a SEEK_SET on IO#read, you read always the same data 

 What I'm missing ?

D> then it might be useful for reading fixed-record length files. 

 I can do this

pigeon% cat aa
aaa
bbb
ccc
pigeon% 

pigeon% ruby
f = open("aa")
while l = f.read(4)
  p l
end
^D
"aaa\n"
"bbb\n"
"ccc\n"
pigeon% 


Guy Decoux