From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-25T04:48:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby with regular expression

peppermonkey wrote:

> 
>> What distinguishes the lines you _do_ want to change from the ones you
>> _don't_ want to change? You don't say. Do all of them have ten digits?
>>
>> > How can you replace only those numbers in the above structure to
>> > "xxxxxxxxxx"?
>> > Openning a file, searching the file, writing to the file I'm presuming
>> > is simple
>> You're presuming?
> 
> Sorry, should have made it clearer.
> The lines that I do want changed has the exact structure of
> 
> "This [] points to []"
> 
> with exactly 10 digits inside the brackets.
> There are no other lines with that structure.
> There are however, other lines that have numbers enclosed by the square
> brackets and they are to remain untouched.

You really should show clearly how the target lines differ from the
non-target lines. Your computer can't turn your prose description into
working code. Neither can I.

> Not at home right now so will have to wait till then to work on it.

In that case, the solution I posted earlier will work with some small
changes. But the changes depend on what you haven't said.

-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com