From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-01-19T09:32:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9528] Re: reading an entire file as a string

> > 	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)

Sorry, I tried both of the following and I cannot find a difference in
results. Maybe you can enlighten me?



1.   buff = File.open("/etc/hosts") {|f| f.read() }

2.   File.open("/etc/hosts") {|f| buff = f.read() }



matju