From: Al Cholic <desertfox@...>
Date: 2007-07-03T08:08:39+09:00
Subject: How to check for where a text file begins?

Hello,

Im working with some imported text files and I need check where the
first 2 lines of text occur.  The files can have white space in the
beginning, so I cant just do a split("\n") and take the first two
elements of the array.  Im a bit confused about this stuff.  Here is
what I've been trying to do with regular expressions, but no results
yet:

def find_first_two_lines(file)
  /\S\n\S/.match(file)
end

If anyone has any ideas, please do share!

Thanks in advance!

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