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retrography/textreader.rb

Created May 8, 2014 18:13
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This is the shortest way of opening a text file in Ruby and transferring its whole content to a single string variable.
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textreader.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
s = IO.read(ARGV.first)
puts s
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