Backport #8175: ARGF#skip doesn't work as documented.

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -

[pritamdey (arup rakshit)]

from the doc: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/ARGF.html#method-i-skip

ARGF#skip :- Sets the current file to the next file in ARGV. If there
aren't any more files it has no effect.

Tried the codes as below:

Code - I:

p RUBY_VERSION
p ARGF.argv
ARGF.skip #>B
p ARGF.argv #> A

Output:

D:\Rubyscript>ruby true.rb a.txt b.txt
"2.0.0"
["a.txt", "b.txt"]
["a.txt", "b.txt"]

Question- Why after the line B, line in A printing all the file names?

Code II:

p RUBY_VERSION
p ARGF.argv
ARGF.skip #>A
p ARGF.filename #>B
p ARGF.argv

output:

D:\Rubyscript>ruby true.rb a.txt b.txt
"2.0.0"
["a.txt", "b.txt"]
"a.txt"
["b.txt"]

Question- Why after the line A, line in B printing a.txt as current
file?

output doesn't match with the official doc,after skip.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

pritamdey (pritam dey) wrote:

from the doc: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/ARGF.html#method-i-skip

ARGF#skip :- Sets the current file to the next file in ARGV. If there
aren't any more files it has no effect.

ARGF isn't a class, so it's ARGF.skip.

Code - I:
Question- Why after the line B, line in A printing all the file names?

ARGF.skip just sets the current file, argv is untouched.

Code II:
Question- Why after the line A, line in B printing a.txt as current
file?

Before the line A no files is assigned to the current file, and
ARGF.skip tries to open the next file, "a.txt".