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Posted Mar 28, 2008 1:15 UTC (Fri) by Tuxie (subscriber, #47191)In reply to: Python by pr1268
Parent article: Striking gold in binutils
sorry, I had to :-)
x = File.read("foo.txt").to_i rescue deadParrot
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Posted Mar 28, 2008 16:08 UTC (Fri) by alkandratsenka (subscriber, #50390) [Link]
Reading whole file in memory just to parse int from it's first line is very funny :)
You'll need a longer version like this
(File.open('foo.txt') {|f| f.readline}).to_i rescue deadParrot