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Hi,

Is your text source in the same directory as the ruby file you're running?

I'm somewhat new as well, but copied/pasted what you had info a new ruby
file, and it works fine here.




On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Brett Kruger <brett.a.kruger / gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello, I'm very new to Ruby, and trying to follow the examples in
> 'Beginning Ruby' by Peter Cooper
>
> However, I'm completely stuck right at the beginning, trying to work
> with File.open
>
> I have
>
> line_count  
> File.open("text.txt", "r").each { |line| line_count +  }
> puts line_count
>
> text.txt is in the same folder as my ruby file, and is ~ 100 lines of
> text. However, line_count always outputs 0 for me.
>
> I've tried changing the syntax around, but I really have no clue what
> the problem may be.
>
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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