On 4/24/07, music <music / musi.ca> wrote: > Robert Dober wrote: > > On 4/24/07, music <music / musi.ca> wrote: > >> Robert Dober wrote: > >> > On 4/23/07, music <music / musi.ca> wrote: > >> >> I have to read in many files. > >> >> I prefer to concat those files and reading only one large file. > >> >> There is a way like unix zcat? > >> >> > >> >> > >> > Sure is > >> > ARGF > >> > >> ARGF ok, but how can I pass ARGF to a method? > >> > >> > > As a global constant it is visible anywhere, you can thus simply do > > things like this > > > > def my_method > > ARGF.each_line do > > | line | > > whatever > > end > > end > > Great!!! and if input files are in gzip format? how can I read them? > > http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/zlib/rdoc/index.html -- You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not? -- George Bernard Shaw