From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2007-03-23T00:15:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Knocking Lines Out Of A Multiline String

On 3/22/07, Andrew Stewart <boss@airbladesoftware.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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.

You could change your lines into an array of lines and then remove the
lines that match:

lines = []
File.new("text.txt").read.each_line {|line|  lines << line }
lines.delete_if {|line| line =~ /\/usr\/local\/lib/}




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