From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-05-01T05:14:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Navigating Files by Line Number

On Sat, 1 May 2004, John Baker wrote:

> 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.

if the file is small:


  line = IO.readlines 'testfile.txt'

  p line[9]

> 
> Thanks
> John
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> 
> 
> 

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