From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2006-11-24T18:55:03+09:00
Subject: Re: double-slashes in input causing trouble

Hi,

At Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:39:05 +0900,
Jeremy Wells wrote in [ruby-talk:226339]:
> if body =~ /^section\sheader(.*)section\sfooter/mi
>     original_section = $1
>     new_section = bit_at_top + original_section
>     new_body = body.sub(original_section, new_section)

You can use bang-version to replace and tell if it is done, at once.

  if body.sub!(/^(section\sheader)(.*section\sfooter)/mi) {$1+bit_at_top+$2}
>     File.open(input,'w') do |file|
         file.write body
>     end
> end

-- 
Nobu Nakada