Re: effect of variable

On Apr 19, 2011, at 1:04 AM, Jim S. wrote:

Was the 'text' variable placed there in case there was more code to
follow that might use that file? Removing that 'text' variable, I opened
the file text.txt to see if the code somehow changed the file content.
It didn't.


Yep - that was there in case you wanted to use the actual text of the
file in some way, such as searching it for a word, counting characters, etc.

I hope you enjoy Ruby!

Michael Edgar
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http://carboni.ca/

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