Problems with opening and reading data from a file

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I am trying to read keywords and phrases from a .txt file and run these
words against a given directory structure. I seem to be having a few
problems, when I run my code i get the following error:

C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop>keywordsearch.rb "C:\Documents
and Sett
ings\user"
C:/Documents and Settings/user/Desktop/keywordsearch.rb:21:in
`initialize': No
such file or directory - C:\Documents and
Settings\user\Desktop\terms.txt (Er
rno::ENOENT)

I cannot see what is wrong with my code see below:

File.open(curPath) do |file|
        file.each do |line|
          o = File.open("C:\\Documents and
Settings\\user\\Desktop\\terms.txt")
          terms = o.readlines
          terms.each do |term|
            if line =~ term
              puts "#{curPath}"
            end
          end
          o.close
        end
      end

Any ideas, I really appreciate the guidance.

Regards

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I am not sure \\ works, try simple /.
And I am sure the file exists and is readable.
Another topic
instead of
o = File.open
...
o.close
you might prefer
File.open do |o|
  ...
end
which will assure o is closed *even* if an exception is raised in your block.

HTH
R.

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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Stuart Clarke <stuart.clarke1986@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to read keywords and phrases from a .txt file and run these
words against a given directory structure. I seem to be having a few
problems, when I run my code i get the following error:

C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop>keywordsearch.rb "C:\Documents
and Sett
ings\user"
C:/Documents and Settings/user/Desktop/keywordsearch.rb:21:in
`initialize': No
such file or directory - C:\Documents and
Settings\user\Desktop\terms.txt (Er
rno::ENOENT)

I cannot see what is wrong with my code see below:

File.open(curPath) do |file|
       file.each do |line|
         o = File.open("C:\\Documents and
Settings\\user\\Desktop\\terms.txt")
         terms = o.readlines
         terms.each do |term|
           if line =~ term
             puts "#{curPath}"
           end
         end
         o.close
       end
     end

Any ideas, I really appreciate the guidance.

Regards
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