From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-03-15T15:50:42-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01868] Re: Another question from a newbie

"David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@cuna.com> writes:

> Why not use this pattern substitution (instead of gsub! and yield) -
> 
> line = s/[ \t]*#.*$//;
> next if /^$/;
> 
> Not sure how that translates to Ruby....

The s/// is a sub(/\s*#.*/, '').

The only reason for the separate method is reusability: the next time
you need to read an Oracle configuration or whatever you've got the
useful configReader method in your toolkit.

> Here's the entire code, including invocation from ksh:

I just ran this without error on my box. However, wasn;t it the
version with comment? that was giving you a problem?



Regards


Dave