From: Paul Fox <olifoxpaul@...>
Date: 2007-12-04T18:18:01+09:00
Subject: changing a files' content

hi all,
i have a text file with various lines, and i want to alter some of these
using regex and gsub.

so i have patterns={/some_pattern/=>"replacement text"}
and i'm thinking this:
in = File.open(filename)
while (line=in.gets)
  if line.strip =~ pattern
    line.gsub(pattern,patterns[pattern])
  end
end

but i'm not sure if that's efficient? and of course, i'm struggling on
the best way of writing those changes back into the file.

any thoughts?
thanks,
f.
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