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On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 08:56:57AM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Jim Freeze wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 07:31:13AM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> >
> >>Here's an example of the data stream approach.
> >>
> >>require 'roof/datastream' # from Roof on RAA
> >>
> >>DataStream.open($0, "r+") do |data|
> >> while line = data.gets and line != "__END__\n"
> >> ## maybe you can do this by seeking to __DATA__.pos,
> >> ## but that doesn't seem to work in Ruby 1.6.7
> >> end
> >
> > DATA.pos works on 1.6.7 unix.
>
> But does it return the position relative to the start of the file or
> relative to the __END__? It seems to be the latter, so I can't use
> DATA.pos to skip to the data part. Nobu's post suggests that there is
> also a __DATA__ in addition to DATA, but that doesn't seem to exist in
> 1.6.7.
>
It returns the position relative to the start of the file.
So,
File.open(__FILE__,"w") { |f|
f.pos = DATA.pos
f.puts "write over the data after __END__"
}
will start writing on the lone following __END__.
--
Jim Freeze
If only I had something clever to say for my comment...
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