Re: Ruby idiom equivalent to Perl "$asdf = $ARGV|| die 'arg required'"?]

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Something like this, perhaps?

a = ARGV[0] || fail('arg required')

cjs

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2007/12/4, Curt S. [email protected]:

Something like this, perhaps?

a = ARGV[0] || fail('arg required')

Here’s some more

a = ARGV.shift or raise “arg required”
a = ARGV.shift or raise ArgumentError, “arg required”

For more complex cmd line parsing I’d use OptionParser.

Kind regards

robert