From: Phil Rhoades <phil@...>
Date: 2008-04-27T07:48:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Howto get array.agrep (NOT array.grep)

jens,


On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 07:03 +0900, Jens Wille wrote:
> Jens Wille [2008-04-26 22:45]:
> > maybe i'll be able to come up with something that wraps flori's 
> > Amatch into (Enumerable|File)#agrep.
> that was actually pretty easy and is definitely an improvement (see
> ruby-nuggets v0.1.9), but it still won't give us support for regular
> expression patterns :-(
> 
> i also added IO::agrep, so you would now be able to do:
> 
>   %w[list1.txt list2.txt list3.txt].inject([]) { |matches, file|
>     matches + File.agrep(file, /Smith\|J.*12345/, 2)
>   }
> 
> -- if only you had regular expressions at your disposal!


Yes, that would be nice!  . . I guess it will be there sometime.

Thanks for looking at this!

Regards,

Phil.
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