From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-04-07T00:02:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Basic input/output question

On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Peter Bailey wrote:

> Hello,
> I spent my $40 on "Programming Ruby," but, it seems dedicated to C
> programmer rocket scientists. I work in publishing and basically I  
> just
> need to open files, convert the data, and write the files, either  
> to the
> same file or to another. Can someone please help me to write a simple
> structure to read a file "text1.txt", do regexes and stuff in it to
> convert data, and then write the output to "text2.txt."

Sure, see if something like this would help you:

File.open("text2.txt", "w") do |output|
   File.foreach("text1.txt") do |line|
     # change line as need here, for example:
     # line.sub!(/regex here/, "replacement here")...

     output << line
   end
end

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II