method

foreach

v1_9_2_180 - Show latest stable - 1 note - Class: IO

foreach(p1, p2 = v2, p3 = v3, p4 = v4) public

Executes the block for every line in the named I/O port, where lines are separated by sep.

If no block is given, an enumerator is returned instead.

IO.foreach("testfile") {|x| print "GOT ", x }

produces:

GOT This is line one
GOT This is line two
GOT This is line three
GOT And so on...

If the last argument is a hash, it’s the keyword argument to open. See IO.read for detail.

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static VALUE
rb_io_s_foreach(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self)
{
    struct foreach_arg arg;

    rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "13", NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
    RETURN_ENUMERATOR(self, argc, argv);
    open_key_args(argc, argv, &arg);
    if (NIL_P(arg.io)) return Qnil;
    return rb_ensure(io_s_foreach, (VALUE)&arg, rb_io_close, arg.io);
}

March 19, 2015

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enumerator and number of lines to read

Example

File.foreach(filename)
  .take(number_of_lines)
  .map do |line|
    # ... stuff ... 
end

foreach

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enumerator and number of lines to read

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