Yeah, I'm pissed. This kind of thing shouldn't happen.
You read in a file. It's empty. You get an empty file in what you'd think
was a string, so you take the length, and it blows up the world in other
parts of your program! You check to see if it's a string with an:
contentvariable.is_a?String
and sure enough, it thinks it's a String, but sure enough, when you go
if contentvariable.size then
it also blows up with that synonym. Sorry to be less than cordial here, but
I really would have liked this to work.
Sincerely, Xeno Campanoli, working with Ruby on the Job.
xc
Xeno,
It works for me:
> touch empty.txt
> irb
> File.read('empty.txt').size
-> 0
Can you give an example where it breaks?
- Jamis
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On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
Yeah, I'm pissed. This kind of thing shouldn't happen.
You read in a file. It's empty. You get an empty file in what you'd think
was a string, so you take the length, and it blows up the world in other
parts of your program! You check to see if it's a string with an:
contentvariable.is_a?String
and sure enough, it thinks it's a String, but sure enough, when you go
if contentvariable.size then
it also blows up with that synonym. Sorry to be less than cordial here, but
I really would have liked this to work.
Sincerely, Xeno Campanoli, working with Ruby on the Job.
xc
Something is fishy here. Please provide an example of broken code...
James Edward Gray II
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On Oct 18, 2005, at 5:49 PM, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
Yeah, I'm pissed. This kind of thing shouldn't happen.
You read in a file. It's empty. You get an empty file in what you'd think
was a string, so you take the length, and it blows up the world in other
parts of your program! You check to see if it's a string with an:
contentvariable.is_a?String
and sure enough, it thinks it's a String, but sure enough, when you go
if contentvariable.size then
it also blows up with that synonym. Sorry to be less than cordial here, but
I really would have liked this to work.
Hi --
Yeah, I'm pissed. This kind of thing shouldn't happen.
You read in a file. It's empty. You get an empty file in what you'd think
was a string, so you take the length, and it blows up the world in other
parts of your program! You check to see if it's a string with an:
contentvariable.is_a?String
and sure enough, it thinks it's a String, but sure enough, when you go
if contentvariable.size then
it also blows up with that synonym. Sorry to be less than cordial here, but
I really would have liked this to work.
Are you sure you didn't do:
def contentvariable.size
raise
end
somewhere? 
Just kidding. As Jam[ei]s said, one would have to see a full (non-)
working example to comment.
David
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
--
David A. Black
dblack@wobblini.net
can we see the actual code? how did you install ruby?
regards.
-a
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
Yeah, I'm pissed. This kind of thing shouldn't happen.
You read in a file. It's empty. You get an empty file in what you'd think
was a string, so you take the length, and it blows up the world in other
parts of your program! You check to see if it's a string with an:
contentvariable.is_a?String
and sure enough, it thinks it's a String, but sure enough, when you go
if contentvariable.size then
it also blows up with that synonym. Sorry to be less than cordial here, but
I really would have liked this to work.
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if contentvariable.size then
Apart from the problem you described, this code will always
resolve to true: zero is true, not false. You could use
"contentvariable.empty?" instead.
gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/
Yeah, hey sorry for getting so uptight guys, but it was really crazy, and I was missing a goal time for showing something to my boss.
I won't have time to put together something solid as an example until tomorrow night, but I'll try to give you guys my version and all that. The really crazy thing is I was taking a filesize too, and when I tried to test it, which I parsef from a split of a text record line, it bombed out there too. Now said record was written for the same file.
The behavior was the kind of thing you see in C when you're going out of bounds with some memory. Is there some memory bounds debug thing I can check for such a problem with?
Sincerely, Xeno
xc
Jamis Buck wrote:
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Xeno,
It works for me:
> touch empty.txt
> irb
> File.read('empty.txt').size
-> 0
Can you give an example where it breaks?
- Jamis
On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
Yeah, I'm pissed. This kind of thing shouldn't happen.
You read in a file. It's empty. You get an empty file in what you'd think
was a string, so you take the length, and it blows up the world in other
parts of your program! You check to see if it's a string with an:
contentvariable.is_a?String
and sure enough, it thinks it's a String, but sure enough, when you go
if contentvariable.size then
it also blows up with that synonym. Sorry to be less than cordial here, but
I really would have liked this to work.
Sincerely, Xeno Campanoli, working with Ruby on the Job.
xc
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The real disaster is ANY TIME WE GET A BUSH FOR PRESIDENT!
Erik Veenstra wrote:
> if contentvariable.size then
Apart from the problem you described, this code will always
resolve to true: zero is true, not false. You could use
"contentvariable.empty?" instead.
I prefer the more sensible
unless contentvariable.zero?