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Tutorial Difficulty Level This version opens a file for writing, and writes its output to a file selected by the user. The second argument to open is the same as the second argument to a plain C fopen, except it will default to reading.
The object returned from open is class File.
# Get the parts of speech. print "Please enter a past-tense verb: " verb = gets.chomp print "Please enter a noun: " noun = gets.chomp print "Please enter a proper noun: " prop_noun = gets.chomp print "Please enter a an adverb: " adv = gets.chomp # See where to put it. print "Please enter a file name: " fn = gets.chomp handle = open(fn,"w") # Go. printf(handle, "%s got a %s and\n%s %s around the block.\n", prop_noun, noun, verb, adv) handle.close
