From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T01:59:56+09:00
Subject: Re: remove regex matched line question

Le 25 mars � 17:47, Ikuta Lin a �crit :

> I wrote the code to query a txt file, and tried remove matched line like
> as below but it not work as well, can someone help?

> src.collect do |e|
>  if e=~/^(#)/
>   src.delete(e)
>  end
> end

Yep.  The collect method returns a copy of your source array, but
doesn't modify it.  OTOH, collect! does what you want.  That being said,
I'd use reject! myself :

src.reject! { |e| e =~ /^#/ }

HTH !

Fred
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