Sebastian Hungerecker
7/16/2008 11:17:00 AM
Morris Brodersen wrote:
> in ruby 1.8.7, IO#gets takes a seperator string as argument. i suggest
> adding support for a regular expression to match any seperator.
That'd be problematic as its not always possible to accurately apply a regex
to a file (or whatever the IO comes from) without reading the whole file (not
without restrictions on the regex anyway), which would kind of defeat the
purpose of using gets instead of read.