From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2006-01-01T01:26:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Newb: Search & Replace

On 12/31/05, Art Gillespie <agillesp@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm implementing build automation in Ruby as a 'learn Ruby' exercise.
> I wanted to post the following code and solicit feedback on any idioms
> I might have missed with regards to text processing with Ruby.  The
> code works--I'm just wondering if it should be shorter, or smarter,
> or...

That is nice and idiomatic from my perspective. In fact I've written
code much like that to do what you are doing. While there might be
various tricks and hacks to make it shorter, they probably aren't
needed.

Ryan