From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-05-24T04:42:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp challenge

On May 23, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Tim Pease wrote:

> On 5/23/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>> On May 23, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Casimir Pohjanraito wrote:
>>
>> > Whats the rubyest ruby program you can code for opening a  
>> directory of
>> > files and replacing a particular string in all files (if found)  
>> with
>> > another string?
>> >
>> > Lets suppose that all files in directory are text and the string to
>> > search
>> > for is "target", and replace string is "practice".
>>
>>  From inside the directory in question:
>>
>>    $ ruby -pi -e 'gsub("target", "practice")' *
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>>
>
> And we have a winner!  James you never cease to amaze me.  I just
> learned three new things.

<laughs>  I come from Perl where tricks like that our very common,  
which is probably just proof that my solution fails "the rubyest  
ruby" requirement of the question.

James Edward Gray II