From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2006-04-07T01:06:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Basic input/output question

Ilmari Heikkinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 4/6/06, Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com> 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."
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
> 
> If your files aren't very large, the simple way is to:
> 
> data = File.read("text1.txt")
> result_data = do_stuff_to( data )
> # open text2.txt in "w"rite mode
> File.open("text2.txt", "w"){|text2|
>   text2.write(result_data)
> }

Thank you! This is great stuff, from all you guys. You're all heroes. . 
. .

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