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That's a good point & idea. I will take that into consideration and will
most likely use the loop like you suggested. Thanks.

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Dave Aronson <
rubytalk2dave / davearonson.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 21:42, Reese Chappuis <c0dege3k / gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok, that does work- so the problem is with how the data is being
> inputted,
> > not with the program?
>
> No, it's the program, if you do indeed want to use gets.  Thing is,
> you're just using gets *once*, and gets just reads one line.  I don't
> see how you could have wound up with multi-line results from one gets
> call in irb.  Possibly the modifications you glossed over, were doing
> a good bit more than that.  Anyway, there are a couple alternate
> suggestions that spring to mind.
>
> One is to use a different input reading function that will read until
> end-of-file, and then split it as you were doing.  The user must press
> ^Z when done (^D on Mac or Linux).  However, typical non-technical
> end-users might not understand things like "press ^Z".  (I'm guessing
> this is really just an academic exercise so that wouldn't really
> matter, but it's still a good idea to get into the habit of thinking
> about what your users will understand or not.)  Also, reading until
> EOF in one chunk can be a dangerous habit to get into, as some joker
> (or malicious attacker) may enter much more data than your program can
> really handle.  (Again, good habit to get into thinking about security
> and scalability.)
>
> A much better way is to put gets in a loop with some condition to end
> it, such as entering a blank line.  How to initialize the data and
> execute that loop, are left as exercises for the reader.
>
> -Dave
>
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Reese Chappuis

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