On 04:42 Sun 20 Jan     , Nick Shaw wrote:
> Hi, Ive just started learning Ruby and I'm having a problem with the
> following program. I'm running it on Ubuntu.
> 
> lines = File.readlines("/home/nick/ruby/analyzer/oliver.txt")
> line_count = lines.size
> text = lines.join
> 
> puts "#{line_count} lines"
> 
> total_characters = text.length
> puts "#{total_characters} characters"
> 
> I keep getting a "No such file or directory error" and I can't
> understand why. The file definitely exists at that location. It's really
> annoying me.
> -- 
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> 
> 

Make sure there isn't a typo, and make sure you have access to the file.
Its obviously not being seen by Ruby, so unless there is some other odd
problem, I have no clue what it would be.