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instance method
ARGF#inplace_mode=
ARGF.inplace_mode = ext → ARGF
io.c
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static VALUE
argf_inplace_mode_set(VALUE argf, VALUE val)
{
if (!RTEST(val)) {
ARGF.inplace = Qfalse;
}
else if (StringValueCStr(val), !RSTRING_LEN(val)) {
ARGF.inplace = Qnil;
}
else {
ARGF.inplace = rb_str_new_frozen(val);
}
return argf;
}
Sets the filename extension for in-place editing mode to the given String. Each file being edited has this value appended to its filename. The modified file is saved under this new name.
For example:
$ ruby argf.rb file.txt
ARGF.inplace_mode = '.bak'
ARGF.each_line do |line|
print line.sub("foo","bar")
end
Each line of file.txt has the first occurrence of “foo” replaced with “bar”, then the new line is written out to file.txt.bak.