Austin Ziegler
9/13/2003 4:36:00 AM
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:55:19 +0900, paul vudmaska wrote:
> now, instead, i do this
> $globalFile = File.new('xml/global.xml')
> $global = REXML::Document.new($globalFile)
> $globalFile.close
There are two Ruby idioms that you may prefer to this.
1. File.open with a block:
globalXML = nil
File.open("xml/global.xml") do |f|
globalXML = REXML::Document.new(f)
end
This implicitly closes the file at the end of the block.
2. File.read:
globalXML = REXML::Document.new(File.read("xml/global.xml"))
-austin
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particularly frowned upon when the entire quoted message is included
following the reply.
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software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.09.13
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