Hi all,
I’m new in ruby and I just have a question: in python when I want to
read all lines from file, do something with all of them and then use
them in my program I use map function + lambda function, sth like
that:
print map(lambda u: u.upper(), open(“foo”, “r”).readlines())
but in your language I didn’t find the way to create in one step array
of all lines from file, that could be used by map(). If I really want
to use map in this situation I have to use secondary array (called
arr) like in this snippet?
arr = Array.new
File.open(‘foo’).each_line{ |l| arr.push l }
p arr.collect{ |l| l.upcase }
Please post a code-snippet, it’s quite interesting to me 
At 2010-01-21 05:17PM, “RobertGawron” wrote:
I’m new in ruby and I just have a question: in python when I want to
read all lines from file, do something with all of them and then use
them in my program I use map function + lambda function, sth like
that:
print map(lambda u: u.upper(), open(“foo”, “r”).readlines())
puts File.readlines(“foo”).map {|l| l.upcase}
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:20 PM, RobertGawron [email protected]
wrote:
but in your language I didn’t find the way to create in one step array
of all lines from file, that could be used by map(). If I really want
to use map in this situation I have to use secondary array (called
arr) like in this snippet?
arr = Array.new
File.open(‘foo’).each_line{ |l| arr.push l }
p arr.collect{ |l| l.upcase }
On 1.8.7+, you can use .lines to get an Enumerator:
p File.open(‘foo’).lines.map {|l| l.upcase}
Hi,
2010/1/21 RobertGawron [email protected]
of all lines from file, that could be used by map(). If I really want
to use map in this situation I have to use secondary array (called
arr) like in this snippet?
arr = Array.new
File.open(‘foo’).each_line{ |l| arr.push l }
p arr.collect{ |l| l.upcase }
Please post a code-snippet, it’s quite interesting to me 
Waow awesome how the order is in Python…
Let’s take the natural order, welcome to Ruby !
puts File.read(‘foo’).lines.map { |line| line.upcase }
That’s in ruby 1.9
Notice lines is an Enumerator, that can be converted to an Array if
needed
by #to_a
You got also IO.readlines
On Jan 21, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Benoit D. wrote:
p arr.collect{ |l| l.upcase }
Notice lines is an Enumerator, that can be converted to an Array if
needed
by #to_a
You got also IO.readlines
Don’t stop there! Take advantage of the Symbol#to_proc behavior:
puts File.read(‘foo’).lines.map(&:upcase)
-Rob
Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
[email protected]
2010/1/21 Charles Oliver N. [email protected]:
On 1.8.7+, you can use .lines to get an Enumerator:
p File.open(‘foo’).lines.map {|l| l.upcase}
This does not close the file handle properly.
I’d rather do something like this:
File.foreach(‘foo’).map {|l| l.upcase}
File.foreach(‘foo’).map(&:upcase)
These have the advantage over some of the presented solutions that
they do not create two large Arrays in memory but just one - the
mapped version.
Kind regards
robert
