ARGF#close

ARGF.close → ARGF

static VALUE
argf_close_m(VALUE argf)
{
    next_argv();
    argf_close(argf);
    if (ARGF.next_p != -1) {
        ARGF.next_p = 1;
    }
    ARGF.lineno = 0;
    return argf;
}

Closes the current file and skips to the next file in ARGV. If there are no more files to open, just closes the current file. STDIN will not be closed.

For example:

$ ruby argf.rb foo bar

ARGF.filename  #=> "foo"
ARGF.close
ARGF.filename  #=> "bar"
ARGF.close

See also #binmode? #closed? #binmode #each also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0

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