File.read for entire content in Ruby - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to read the entire content of 'example.txt' into the variable 'content'.

Ruby

content = File.[1]('example.txt')

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Aopen

Bclose

Cwrite

Dread

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using File.open instead of File.read, which returns a file object, not the content.

Using File.write which is for writing to files, not reading.

The File.read method reads the entire content of the file as a string.

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medium

Complete the code to read the entire content of a file named 'data.txt' and print it.

Ruby

puts File.[1]('data.txt')

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Aread

Bclose

Cwrite

Dopen

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using File.open without reading the content.

Using File.write which is for saving data, not reading.

File.read returns the whole file content as a string, which puts then prints.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to read the entire file content into 'text'.

Ruby

text = File.[1]('notes.txt')

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Aread

Bopen

Cclose

Dwrite

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using File.open returns a file object, not the content.

Using File.close or File.write are not for reading.

Only File.read reads the whole file content as a string directly.

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hard

Fill both blanks to read the entire content of 'log.txt' and store it in 'log_data'.

Ruby

log_data = File.[1]('log.txt').[2]

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Aread

Bopen

Cstrip

Dclose

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using File.read with close which is not a string method.

Trying to use File.close which does not return content.

File.read reads the entire content of the file as a string, and strip removes extra spaces or newlines from the string.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to read the entire content of 'story.txt', convert it to uppercase, and remove trailing spaces.

Ruby

content = File.[1]('story.txt').[2].[3]

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Aread

Bupcase

Cstrip

Dopen

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using File.open instead of File.read for reading content.

Mixing up the order of string methods.

First, File.read reads the file content, then upcase converts it to uppercase, and strip removes extra spaces.