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Comprehensive Ruby Programming
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Comprehensive Ruby Programming

by Jordan Hudgens
June 2017
Beginner
330 pages
7h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Other options you can pass as the second option

Following is the list of the options you can pass as the second option:

  • r: This stands for reading
  • a: This stands for appending to a file
  • w: This stands for just writing to a file
  • w+: This stands for reading and writing to a file
  • a+: This stands for opening a file for reading and appending
  • r+: This stands for opening a file for updating, and it includes both reading and writing

Going back to the code, the f variable is the block variable, and we are asking it to write all the values that are present inside the double quotes by passing the write method to it.

If you run this code, it will create a text file called teams.txt and add the names of the four teams inside it.

To run it, go to the ...

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