From: rumpy@...
Date: 2008-07-23T14:00:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to search/replace in a text file.

Emmanuel, thank you very much for sorting me out. I can see I was  
close but very confused on the write step.


Quoting Emmanuel Oga <eoga@elctech.com>:

> Documentation : http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.8.6/classes/IO.html
>
> contents = File.read("filename") #read
> contents.gsub!("what you look for", "the substitutive") # modify
> File.open("filename", "rw") { |file| file << contents } #write
>
> Warning: File.read will bring the whole file to memory.
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