From: Lutz Horn <lutz.horn@...>
Date: 2007-08-10T18:06:53+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question: how to seek in a file

Hi,

Ak 756 wrote:
> I want to find a string in a text file, then read some bytes data after
> the position of this string. Would anybody kindly help to tell me how to
> do?

You could do something like this:

File.open("my-file.txt") do |f|
  i = f.read.index(/search/)
  f.seek(i)
  puts f.read(10)
end

Lutz
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