From: Stephen White <steve@...>
Date: 2001-01-19T11:00:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9531] Re: reading an entire file as a string

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

>    buff = nil
>    File.open(path) {|f| buff = f.read(*args) }
> 
> Which is a bit uglier than
> 
>    buff = File.read(path)

I've been using:

  buff = File.new("filename").read(nil)

to read in the whole file at once. Works for me, unless I'm misunderstanding
this thread.

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