From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-03-23T00:15:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Knocking Lines Out Of A Multiline String

On 22.03.2007 16:09, Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 22.03.2007 15:43, Andrew Stewart wrote:
>> What's a (good!) way to remove lines matching a pattern from a 
>> multiline string?
>>
>> For example, I would like to remove lines matching /usr/local/lib from 
>> the multiline string:
>>
>>     
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.1/lib/action_controller/test_process.rb:382:in 
>> `process'
>>     
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.1/lib/action_controller/test_process.rb:353:in 
>> `post'
>>     test/functional/orders_controller_test.rb:241:in 
>> `test_should_handle_errors_on_edit'
>>
>> ..to give:
>>
>>     test/functional/orders_controller_test.rb:241:in 
>> `test_should_handle_errors_on_edit'
>>
>> I tried matching the pattern-to-remove with gsub and substituting an 
>> empty string, but that leaves me with lots of blank lines and not 
>> really any nearer to the answer.
> 
> Convert it to an array and select like
> 
>  >> "foo\nbar\n".to_a.select {|l| /^f/ =~ l}
> => ["foo\n"]

Bullshit: just use select:

 >> "foo\nbar\n".select {|l| /^f/ =~ l}
=> ["foo\n"]

Sorry for the noise.

	robert