From: Gregory Millam <walker@...>
Date: 2004-05-06T19:41:11+09:00
Subject: Re: readlines

Received: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:28:56 +0900
And lo, Martin wrote:

> hi
> i use the following syntax to read a file with 7 lines in a array
> but only the first element contains all lines
> i tryed to add a delimiter as 2. argument but it doesnt work?
> code:
> 
> 
> arFile = readlines("datname")
> 2. try
> delimiter = "\n"
> arFile = readlines("datname", delimiter)
> this produces an error

readlines() reads from STDIN until EOF. If you want to read from a file, you'll want:

IO.readlines("datname")