John Rubinubi wrote: > > Thanks. That did it. Here's another, no doubt equally stupid question. > > On p. 16 of Programming Ruby is given > > ARGF.each {|line| print line if line =~/Ruby/ } > > which is supposed to print the inputted lines which contain "Ruby" > > The while loop example in the book runs as expected but this ARGF > one-liner doesn't seem to do anything. > > Thanks, > > John I don't have the book but if this is about processing command line arguments, the variable to use is probably ARGV. Otherwise, i can't help. craig