From: John Baker <mrjdoh@...>
Date: 2004-05-01T00:54:02+09:00
Subject: Navigating Files by Line Number

Hi

I've tried the following code on Win XP, Ruby 1.8rc1 and
Mac OS X 10.3, Ruby 1.6.8. From the online documentation I
pretty much copied and tried the following code:

f = File.new("testfile.txt")
puts f.gets                  >> This is line 1
puts f.gets                  >> This is line 2
f.lineno = 9                 >>
puts f.lineno                >> 9
puts f.gets                  >> This is line 3

Although f.lineno updates to 9, it never seems to affect
the line number next read.

Thanks
John
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