Returns an enumerator which iterates over each line (separated by sep, which defaults to your platform’s newline character) of each file in ARGV
. If a block is supplied, each line in turn will be yielded to the block, otherwise an enumerator is returned. The optional limit argument is an Integer
specifying the maximum length of each line; longer lines will be split according to this limit.
This method allows you to treat the files supplied on the command line as a single file consisting of the concatenation of each named file. After the last line of the first file has been returned, the first line of the second file is returned. The ARGF.filename
and ARGF.lineno
methods can be used to determine the filename of the current line and line number of the whole input, respectively.
For example, the following code prints out each line of each named file prefixed with its line number, displaying the filename once per file:
ARGF.each_line do |line| puts ARGF.filename if ARGF.file.lineno == 1 puts "#{ARGF.file.lineno}: #{line}" end
While the following code prints only the first file’s name at first, and the contents with line number counted through all named files.
ARGF.each_line do |line| puts ARGF.filename if ARGF.lineno == 1 puts "#{ARGF.lineno}: #{line}" end
Reads the next character from ARGF
and returns it as a String
. Raises an EOFError
after the last character of the last file has been read.
For example:
$ echo "foo" > file $ ruby argf.rb file ARGF.readchar #=> "f" ARGF.readchar #=> "o" ARGF.readchar #=> "o" ARGF.readchar #=> "\n" ARGF.readchar #=> end of file reached (EOFError)
Calls the block with each row read from source path_or_io
.
Path input without headers:
string = "foo,0\nbar,1\nbaz,2\n" in_path = 't.csv' File.write(in_path, string) CSV.foreach(in_path) {|row| p row }
Output:
["foo", "0"] ["bar", "1"] ["baz", "2"]
Path input with headers:
string = "Name,Value\nfoo,0\nbar,1\nbaz,2\n" in_path = 't.csv' File.write(in_path, string) CSV.foreach(in_path, headers: true) {|row| p row }
Output:
<CSV::Row "Name":"foo" "Value":"0"> <CSV::Row "Name":"bar" "Value":"1"> <CSV::Row "Name":"baz" "Value":"2">
IO stream input without headers:
string = "foo,0\nbar,1\nbaz,2\n" path = 't.csv' File.write(path, string) File.open('t.csv') do |in_io| CSV.foreach(in_io) {|row| p row } end
Output:
["foo", "0"] ["bar", "1"] ["baz", "2"]
IO stream input with headers:
string = "Name,Value\nfoo,0\nbar,1\nbaz,2\n" path = 't.csv' File.write(path, string) File.open('t.csv') do |in_io| CSV.foreach(in_io, headers: true) {|row| p row } end
Output:
<CSV::Row "Name":"foo" "Value":"0"> <CSV::Row "Name":"bar" "Value":"1"> <CSV::Row "Name":"baz" "Value":"2">
With no block given, returns an Enumerator:
string = "foo,0\nbar,1\nbaz,2\n" path = 't.csv' File.write(path, string) CSV.foreach(path) # => #<Enumerator: CSV:foreach("t.csv", "r")>
Arguments:
Argument path_or_io
must be a file path or an IO stream.
Argument mode
, if given, must be a File mode See Open Mode.
Arguments **options
must be keyword options. See Options for Parsing.
This method optionally accepts an additional :encoding
option that you can use to specify the Encoding
of the data read from path
or io
. You must provide this unless your data is in the encoding given by Encoding::default_external
. Parsing will use this to determine how to parse the data. You may provide a second Encoding
to have the data transcoded as it is read. For example,
encoding: 'UTF-32BE:UTF-8'
would read UTF-32BE
data from the file but transcode it to UTF-8
before parsing.
Calls the block with each successive row. The data source must be opened for reading.
Without headers:
string = "foo,0\nbar,1\nbaz,2\n" csv = CSV.new(string) csv.each do |row| p row end
Output:
["foo", "0"] ["bar", "1"] ["baz", "2"]
With headers:
string = "Name,Value\nfoo,0\nbar,1\nbaz,2\n" csv = CSV.new(string, headers: true) csv.each do |row| p row end
Output:
<CSV::Row "Name":"foo" "Value":"0"> <CSV::Row "Name":"bar" "Value":"1"> <CSV::Row "Name":"baz" "Value":"2">
Raises an exception if the source is not opened for reading:
string = "foo,0\nbar,1\nbaz,2\n" csv = CSV.new(string) csv.close # Raises IOError (not opened for reading) csv.each do |row| p row end
Calls the given block with each option; each option is a 2-element array containing:
The option name (the name itself, not an alias).
The option value.
Example:
require 'getoptlong' options = GetoptLong.new( ['--xxx', '-x', GetoptLong::REQUIRED_ARGUMENT], ['--yyy', '-y', GetoptLong::OPTIONAL_ARGUMENT], ['--zzz', '-z',GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT] ) puts "Original ARGV: #{ARGV}" options.each do |option, argument| p [option, argument] end puts "Remaining ARGV: #{ARGV}"
Command line:
ruby each.rb -xxx Foo -x Bar --yyy Baz -y Bat --zzz
Output:
Original ARGV: ["-xxx", "Foo", "-x", "Bar", "--yyy", "Baz", "-y", "Bat", "--zzz"] ["--xxx", "xx"] ["--xxx", "Bar"] ["--yyy", "Baz"] ["--yyy", "Bat"] ["--zzz", ""] Remaining ARGV: ["Foo"]
Returns the matched substring corresponding to the given argument.
When non-negative argument n
is given, returns the matched substring for the n
th match:
m = /(.)(.)(\d+)(\d)(\w)?/.match("THX1138.") # => #<MatchData "HX1138" 1:"H" 2:"X" 3:"113" 4:"8" 5:nil> m.match(0) # => "HX1138" m.match(4) # => "8" m.match(5) # => nil
When string or symbol argument name
is given, returns the matched substring for the given name:
m = /(?<foo>.)(.)(?<bar>.+)/.match("hoge") # => #<MatchData "hoge" foo:"h" bar:"ge"> m.match('foo') # => "h" m.match(:bar) # => "ge"
Like []
, except that it accepts a default value for the store. If the key
does not exist:
Raises an exception if default
is PStore::Error
.
Returns the value of default
otherwise:
example_store do |store| store.transaction do store.fetch(:nope, nil) # => nil store.fetch(:nope) # Raises an exception. end end
Raises an exception if called outside a transaction block.
Returns a fiber-local for the given key. If the key can’t be found, there are several options: With no other arguments, it will raise a KeyError
exception; if default is given, then that will be returned; if the optional code block is specified, then that will be run and its result returned. See Thread#[]
and Hash#fetch
.
Invokes Posix system call syscall(2), which calls a specified function.
Calls the operating system function identified by integer_callno
; returns the result of the function or raises SystemCallError
if it failed. The effect of the call is platform-dependent. The arguments and returned value are platform-dependent.
For each of arguments
: if it is an integer, it is passed directly; if it is a string, it is interpreted as a binary sequence of bytes. There may be as many as nine such arguments.
Arguments integer_callno
and argument
, as well as the returned value, are platform-dependent.
Note: Method
syscall
is essentially unsafe and unportable. The DL (Fiddle
) library is preferred for safer and a bit more portable programming.
Not implemented on all platforms.
Executes command… in a subshell. command… is one of following forms.
This method has potential security vulnerabilities if called with untrusted input; see Command Injection.
commandline
command line string which is passed to the standard shell
cmdname, arg1, ...
command name and one or more arguments (no shell)
[cmdname, argv0], arg1, ...
command name, argv[0]
and zero or more arguments (no shell)
system returns true
if the command gives zero exit status, false
for non zero exit status. Returns nil
if command execution fails. An error status is available in $?
.
If the exception: true
argument is passed, the method raises an exception instead of returning false
or nil
.
The arguments are processed in the same way as for Kernel#spawn
.
The hash arguments, env and options, are same as exec
and spawn
. See Kernel#spawn
for details.
system("echo *") system("echo", "*")
produces:
config.h main.rb *
Error handling:
system("cat nonexistent.txt") # => false system("catt nonexistent.txt") # => nil system("cat nonexistent.txt", exception: true) # RuntimeError (Command failed with exit 1: cat) system("catt nonexistent.txt", exception: true) # Errno::ENOENT (No such file or directory - catt)
See Kernel#exec
for the standard shell.
Equivalent to ($_.dup).chop!
, except nil
is never returned. See String#chop!
. Available only when -p/-n command line option specified.
Equivalent to $_ = $_.chomp(string)
. See String#chomp
. Available only when -p/-n command line option specified.
catch
executes its block. If throw
is not called, the block executes normally, and catch
returns the value of the last expression evaluated.
catch(1) { 123 } # => 123
If throw(tag2, val)
is called, Ruby searches up its stack for a catch
block whose tag
has the same object_id
as tag2. When found, the block stops executing and returns val (or nil
if no second argument was given to throw
).
catch(1) { throw(1, 456) } # => 456 catch(1) { throw(1) } # => nil
When tag
is passed as the first argument, catch
yields it as the parameter of the block.
catch(1) {|x| x + 2 } # => 3
When no tag
is given, catch
yields a new unique object (as from Object.new
) as the block parameter. This object can then be used as the argument to throw
, and will match the correct catch
block.
catch do |obj_A| catch do |obj_B| throw(obj_B, 123) puts "This puts is not reached" end puts "This puts is displayed" 456 end # => 456 catch do |obj_A| catch do |obj_B| throw(obj_A, 123) puts "This puts is still not reached" end puts "Now this puts is also not reached" 456 end # => 123
When called with positive integer argument n
and a block, calls the block with each element, then does so again, until it has done so n
times; returns nil
:
a = [] (1..4).cycle(3) {|element| a.push(element) } # => nil a # => [1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4] a = [] ('a'..'d').cycle(2) {|element| a.push(element) } a # => ["a", "b", "c", "d", "a", "b", "c", "d"] a = [] {foo: 0, bar: 1, baz: 2}.cycle(2) {|element| a.push(element) } a # => [[:foo, 0], [:bar, 1], [:baz, 2], [:foo, 0], [:bar, 1], [:baz, 2]]
If count is zero or negative, does not call the block.
When called with a block and n
is nil
, cycles forever.
When no block is given, returns an Enumerator
.
Each element in the returned enumerator is a 2-element array consisting of:
A value returned by the block.
An array (“chunk”) containing the element for which that value was returned, and all following elements for which the block returned the same value:
So that:
Each block return value that is different from its predecessor begins a new chunk.
Each block return value that is the same as its predecessor continues the same chunk.
Example:
e = (0..10).chunk {|i| (i / 3).floor } # => #<Enumerator: ...> # The enumerator elements. e.next # => [0, [0, 1, 2]] e.next # => [1, [3, 4, 5]] e.next # => [2, [6, 7, 8]] e.next # => [3, [9, 10]]
Method chunk
is especially useful for an enumerable that is already sorted. This example counts words for each initial letter in a large array of words:
# Get sorted words from a web page. url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eneko/data-repository/master/data/words.txt' words = URI::open(url).readlines # Make chunks, one for each letter. e = words.chunk {|word| word.upcase[0] } # => #<Enumerator: ...> # Display 'A' through 'F'. e.each {|c, words| p [c, words.length]; break if c == 'F' }
Output:
["A", 17096] ["B", 11070] ["C", 19901] ["D", 10896] ["E", 8736] ["F", 6860]
You can use the special symbol :_alone
to force an element into its own separate chuck:
a = [0, 0, 1, 1] e = a.chunk{|i| i.even? ? :_alone : true } e.to_a # => [[:_alone, [0]], [:_alone, [0]], [true, [1, 1]]]
For example, you can put each line that contains a URL into its own chunk:
pattern = /http/ open(filename) { |f| f.chunk { |line| line =~ pattern ? :_alone : true }.each { |key, lines| pp lines } }
You can use the special symbol :_separator
or nil
to force an element to be ignored (not included in any chunk):
a = [0, 0, -1, 1, 1] e = a.chunk{|i| i < 0 ? :_separator : true } e.to_a # => [[true, [0, 0]], [true, [1, 1]]]
Note that the separator does end the chunk:
a = [0, 0, -1, 1, -1, 1] e = a.chunk{|i| i < 0 ? :_separator : true } e.to_a # => [[true, [0, 0]], [true, [1]], [true, [1]]]
For example, the sequence of hyphens in svn log can be eliminated as follows:
sep = "-"*72 + "\n" IO.popen("svn log README") { |f| f.chunk { |line| line != sep || nil }.each { |_, lines| pp lines } } #=> ["r20018 | knu | 2008-10-29 13:20:42 +0900 (Wed, 29 Oct 2008) | 2 lines\n", # "\n", # "* README, README.ja: Update the portability section.\n", # "\n"] # ["r16725 | knu | 2008-05-31 23:34:23 +0900 (Sat, 31 May 2008) | 2 lines\n", # "\n", # "* README, README.ja: Add a note about default C flags.\n", # "\n"] # ...
Paragraphs separated by empty lines can be parsed as follows:
File.foreach("README").chunk { |line| /\A\s*\z/ !~ line || nil }.each { |_, lines| pp lines }
Returns an enumerator object generated from this enumerator and given enumerables.
e = (1..3).chain([4, 5]) e.to_a #=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Returns system configuration directory.
This is typically "/etc"
, but is modified by the prefix used when Ruby was compiled. For example, if Ruby is built and installed in /usr/local
, returns "/usr/local/etc"
on other platforms than Windows.
On Windows, this always returns the directory provided by the system.
Returns system temporary directory; typically “/tmp”.
Returns system configuration variable using sysconf().
name should be a constant under Etc
which begins with SC_
.
The return value is an integer or nil. nil means indefinite limit. (sysconf() returns -1 but errno is not set.)
Etc.sysconf(Etc::SC_ARG_MAX) #=> 2097152 Etc.sysconf(Etc::SC_LOGIN_NAME_MAX) #=> 256
Checks the status of the child process specified by pid
. Returns nil
if the process is still alive.
If the process is not alive, and raise
was true, a PTY::ChildExited
exception will be raised. Otherwise it will return a Process::Status
instance.
pid
The process id of the process to check
raise
If true
and the process identified by pid
is no longer alive a PTY::ChildExited
is raised.
Returns true
if filepath
points to a symbolic link, false
otherwise:
symlink = File.symlink('t.txt', 'symlink') File.symlink?('symlink') # => true File.symlink?('t.txt') # => false
Returns true
if filepath
points to a character device, false
otherwise.
File.chardev?($stdin) # => true File.chardev?('t.txt') # => false
Invokes the block with a Benchmark::Report object, which may be used to collect and report on the results of individual benchmark tests. Reserves label_width
leading spaces for labels on each line. Prints caption
at the top of the report, and uses format
to format each line. (Note: caption
must contain a terminating newline character, see the default Benchmark::Tms::CAPTION for an example.)
Returns an array of Benchmark::Tms
objects.
If the block returns an array of Benchmark::Tms
objects, these will be used to format additional lines of output. If labels
parameter are given, these are used to label these extra lines.
Note: Other methods provide a simpler interface to this one, and are suitable for nearly all benchmarking requirements. See the examples in Benchmark
, and the bm
and bmbm
methods.
Example:
require 'benchmark' include Benchmark # we need the CAPTION and FORMAT constants n = 5000000 Benchmark.benchmark(CAPTION, 7, FORMAT, ">total:", ">avg:") do |x| tf = x.report("for:") { for i in 1..n; a = "1"; end } tt = x.report("times:") { n.times do ; a = "1"; end } tu = x.report("upto:") { 1.upto(n) do ; a = "1"; end } [tf+tt+tu, (tf+tt+tu)/3] end
Generates:
user system total real for: 0.970000 0.000000 0.970000 ( 0.970493) times: 0.990000 0.000000 0.990000 ( 0.989542) upto: 0.970000 0.000000 0.970000 ( 0.972854) >total: 2.930000 0.000000 2.930000 ( 2.932889) >avg: 0.976667 0.000000 0.976667 ( 0.977630)
Invokes the block with a Benchmark::Report object, which may be used to collect and report on the results of individual benchmark tests. Reserves label_width
leading spaces for labels on each line. Prints caption
at the top of the report, and uses format
to format each line. (Note: caption
must contain a terminating newline character, see the default Benchmark::Tms::CAPTION for an example.)
Returns an array of Benchmark::Tms
objects.
If the block returns an array of Benchmark::Tms
objects, these will be used to format additional lines of output. If labels
parameter are given, these are used to label these extra lines.
Note: Other methods provide a simpler interface to this one, and are suitable for nearly all benchmarking requirements. See the examples in Benchmark
, and the bm
and bmbm
methods.
Example:
require 'benchmark' include Benchmark # we need the CAPTION and FORMAT constants n = 5000000 Benchmark.benchmark(CAPTION, 7, FORMAT, ">total:", ">avg:") do |x| tf = x.report("for:") { for i in 1..n; a = "1"; end } tt = x.report("times:") { n.times do ; a = "1"; end } tu = x.report("upto:") { 1.upto(n) do ; a = "1"; end } [tf+tt+tu, (tf+tt+tu)/3] end
Generates:
user system total real for: 0.970000 0.000000 0.970000 ( 0.970493) times: 0.990000 0.000000 0.990000 ( 0.989542) upto: 0.970000 0.000000 0.970000 ( 0.972854) >total: 2.930000 0.000000 2.930000 ( 2.932889) >avg: 0.976667 0.000000 0.976667 ( 0.977630)