From: Peter Marks <petertmarks@...>
Date: 2007-08-28T19:10:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Conducting Regular Expressions on a text file

J-H Johansen wrote:
> You could also create a Hash for placeholder => word in case you have
> a lot of things that needs to be changed.

Thanks J-H, that works fine. I do have a a lot of these however, so a 
hash is probably the be the way to go. This is what I'll be doing:

rehash = {
      "placeholder" => "word",
      "placeholder2" => "other",
}

File.open('test.txt') do |file|
      File.open("sink.rtf", "w") do |sink|
            while line = file.gets
                  sink.write line.gsub(/\[#([^#]*)#\]/){
                        rehash[$1]
                        }
            end
       end
end
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