From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2004-05-06T20:20:57+09:00
Subject: Re: readlines

Martin Uruz wrote:

> now i use this dirty workaround but it works
>  arFile = readlines("tagedatei_uruz")
>  arLines = arFile[0].split("\n")

Note that you're calling Kernel::readlines.  It's one and only argument (if supplied) is the line separator.

Since you're passing the file name, which presumably doesn't appear anywhere in the file's text, you get back an array containing one entry.

As Gregory suggested, I think you actually want something like

  arLines = File.open("tagedatei_uruz").readlines

Actually, I'm surprised you get what you expect at all.  I assume you're running this via a command like

  ruby yourscript.rb < tagedatei_uruz

which is why calling Kernel::readlines works.

Hope that helps.

Harry O.