From: Edwin Fine <efine145-nospam01@...>
Date: 2007-02-16T14:18:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Processing a text file

barjunk wrote:
> I have a radius users text file that has entries like:
> 
> # username - Thu Feb 15 08:59:03 AKST 2007
> davidh Calling-Station-Id != "00-1A-02-3E-93-28", Auth-Type := Reject
> davidh User-Password == "secretpass"
> #
...

I don't know how big the file is, but if you can read it all into a 
string (e.g. str = File.read("the_file") ), you could use something like 
this:

def zap_unwanted_lines(str, user)
  re = %r[
    ^\#\s+username\s+-\s+\w{3}\s\w{3}\s\d{2}\s\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\s\w+\s\d{4}\n
    #{user}\s+Calling-Station-Id[^\n]+\n
    #{user}\s+User-Password[^\n]+\n
    \#\s*\n
  ]x

  str.gsub re, ''
end

TEXT = %q{
# username - Thu Feb 15 08:59:03 AKST 2007
davidh Calling-Station-Id != "00-1A-02-3E-93-28", Auth-Type := Reject
davidh User-Password == "secretpass"
#
}

dummy = "This is some dummy text\n" * 5
fake_radius_data = dummy + TEXT + dummy + TEXT + dummy

puts "--- Before zapping ---"
puts fake_radius_data
puts "--- After zapping ---"
puts zap_unwanted_lines(fake_radius_data, "davidh")

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