John Maclean wrote:
> Thanks! The light shines. So how can i -write- to a file using the code 
> below as an example?

Open a file for writing

File.open( "infile", "r" ) | in |
  File.open( "outfile", "w" ) | out |
    while line = in.gets
      out.print line
    end
  end
end

See the docs for IO which explain all the mode flags ("r", "w", "a", 
etc.).

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