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How to read whole file in Ruby?

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Is there an in-built function in Ruby to read the whole file without using any loop? So far, I have only come across methods that read in chunks (line or character).

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Shubham Avatar asked Jul 25 '10 08:07

Shubham


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IO.read("filename") 

or

File.read("filename") 
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sluukkonen Avatar answered Sep 22 '22 17:09

sluukkonen


File.readlines("filename") 

This is also a great method to read everything from a file and break split on carriage returns. The return is an Array with one line per element.

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Nick Avatar answered Sep 23 '22 17:09

Nick