File.new(filename, mode="r" [, opt]) â file
File.new(filename [, mode [, perm]] [, opt]) â file
File.new(filename [, mode [, perm]] [, opt]) â file
Class Public methods
Opens the file named by filename
according to the given
mode
and returns a new File object.
See IO.new for a description of
mode
and opt
.
If a file is being created, permission bits may be given in
perm
. These mode and permission bits are platform dependent;
on Unix systems, see open(2) and chmod(2) man pages for details.
Examples
f = File.new("testfile", "r") f = File.new("newfile", "w+") f = File.new("newfile", File::CREAT|File::TRUNC|File::RDWR, 0644)
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