From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2007-09-08T15:20:08+09:00
Subject: Re: read a specific line from a file

On Sep 7, 8:34 pm, Pe�a, Botp <b...@delmonte-phil.com> wrote:
> From: rio4ruby [mailto:Christopher.Kleck...@gmail.com]
> # Or even
> #   rio('test.txt').line[2]
>
> thanks. i just wanted (and hoped) that the op will try his hands on rio and experiment it.

He ought to learn and experiment with Ruby first.

>
> rio has simple solutions for line grabbing, like eg, "get line 3..5, lines 100,200,300..400, and lines containing /test/"
>
> rio('test.txt').line[3..5,100,200,300..400,/test/]

lines = IO.readlines("phrases_no_extra.txt")
lines.values_at( 3..5,100,200,300..400 ) +
  lines.grep( /test/ )