From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-12-05T00:10:15+09:00
Subject: Re: changing a files' content

On Dec 4, 3:18 am, Paul Fox <olifoxp...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

patterns = { /some_pattern/ => "replacement text" }

File.open(filename, 'r+') { | handle |
  out = []
  handle.readlines { | line |
    patterns.each { | pattern, replacement |
      if line.strip =~ pattern
        line = line.gsub(pattern, replacement)
      end
    }
    out << line
  }
  handle.write(out.join(''))
}

Untested...

Regards,
Jordan