From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-01-19T07:15:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9527] Re: reading an entire file as a string

Mathieu Bouchard <matju@cam.org> writes:

> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 
> > OK.  But unlike readlines and each, read is not fundamentally for
> > reading whole file.  What kind of method do you want?
> >   (a) exactly like:
> >         f = open(path)
> >         begin
> >           f.read(*args)
> >         ensure
> >           f.close
> >         end
> 
> This is like:
> 
> 	File.open(path) {|f| f.read(*args) }

Except because of scope you have to write

   buff = nil
   File.open(path) {|f| buff = f.read(*args) }

Which is a bit uglier than

   buff = File.read(path)



Dave