Thanks Mac, works like a charm. Thanks for your efforts everybody
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> Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney
> > <devi.webmas... / gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  ¨Âçú Úìé⺺ÇúéðÒåáäåò®îå÷¨Æéìå®ïðåôåóô®ôçú§¬ §ò⧩©
> >>  Warning: tgz and the file will be closed.
>
> > I seem to have failed to remove the former comment. It looks like
> > Minitar::Reader at no point closes tgz or the file, and therefore tgz
> > needs to be closed manually afterward, as I my code correctly
> > demonstrated, though the comment did not.
>
> > Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney
>
> You can use Zlib::GzipReader.open with a block. (Since I set Chris the
> original problem, and this isn't the hard part, I'll show the code that
> is used in the app, with a couple of minor mods to make it look like
> Chris's example.)
>
> Zlib::GzipReader.open(@tarfile) { |tgz|
> Archive::Tar::Minitar::Reader.open(tgz).each do |entry|
>
> # Chris's code
> #  ¨Âðì ÓôòéîçÉÏ®îå÷åîôòù®òåáäéæ åîôòù®îáíå ½þ
> /#{@date}#{channel}_pl/
> #  ¨Âðé ÓôòéîçÉÏ®îå÷åîôòù®òåáäéæ åîôòù®îáíå ½þ
> /#{@date}#{channel}_pi/
>
> # Or test the verification by using the XML document directly
> # fpl=REXML::Document.new(StringIO.new(entry.read)) if entry.name
> =~/#{date}#{channel}_pl/
> # fpi=REXML::Document.new(StringIO.new(entry.read)) if entry.name
> =~/#{date}#{channel}_pi/
>
> end
>
> }
>
> Mac
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