From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-07-29T05:11:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Sed -> Ruby : .. and ...



Keith Fahlgren wrote:

> Here's the one I have problems with (we had a working Perl equivalent
> but are trying to abandon Perl).
>
> sed:
> /BEGIN RANGE/,/END RANGE/{
>         s/MATCH/REPLACEMENT/g
> }
>
> ruby:
> [same beginning]
>   if working_file =~ /BEGIN RANGE/ .. working_file =~ /END RANGE/
>     # INCLUSIVE use ... if you want non inclusive
>     working_file.sub!(/MATCH/,'REPLACEMENT')
>   end
> [same ending]

ruby -pe 'gsub(/e/, "-") if $_ =~ /START/ .. $_ =~ /END/' infile
>outfile