Peñá wrote:
> From: Tom Cloyd [mailto:tomcloyd / comcast.net] 
> # I'm playing with various ways of using readline, like
> #
> # require 'readline'
> # puts 'test under way'
> # opt = readline( "=--> \n")
> # puts( opt)
> # 
> # Nothing works, so far. The code above seems to stop at line 
> # 2. Or maybe it's 3, but there's no prompt output. 
> # We surely never get to line 4.
>
> that is because, the line
>
> opt = readline( "=--> \n") will call ruby's Kernel.readline and not readline's readline (if i may say that ;-). So, what is happening is that ruby will treat "=--> \n" not as a prompt, but as your input ender, ergo it is waiting for the string "=--> \n" wc you never type obviously.
>
> you really want
>
> opt = Readline::readline( "=--> \n") 
>
>
> Eg,
>
> botp@pc4all:~$ cat test.rb
> require 'readline'
> puts 'test under way'
> opt = Readline::readline( "=-->\n")
> puts( opt)
>
> botp@pc4all:~$ ruby test.rb
> test under way
> =-->
> is this ok?
> is this ok?
> botp@pc4all:~$
>
>
> kind regards -botp
>
>
>   
Thanks. This is good. I now know more about "readline" than I thought it 
possible to know. Another surprising Ruby adventure.

Thank for you patience with my great ignorance!

t.

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