From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-08-10T19:00:35+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question: how to seek in a file

Ak 756 wrote:
> Konrad Meyer wrote:
>> On Friday 10 August 2007 02:09:56 am Konrad Meyer wrote:
>>>   my_data = $1
>> Better yet:
>>   READ_BYTES = 16
>>   content = File.open('foo'){|f| f.read }
>>   my_data = content[content.index("find this string"), READ_BYTES]
>>   # I tried to combine Lutz's and my earlier ideas
>>
>> Though this of course assumes the string is found.
> 
> I don't care about huge file at present and this method works for me.
> Thanks Konrad and Lutz.
I believe you can also do this with RExpect, but I'm on Windows right 
now and can't test it out.

-- 
Alex