From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-08-10T23:42:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex. How to return multiple lines

On 10.08.2008 15:49, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> c = File.read "x"
>>
>> p c.grep /a+/
> 
> Why not:
> p File.open("x") {|f| f.grep /a+/}
> Avoids loading the whole file into memory.

The original request stated "I assume that file would be read in one 
chunk into memory." which I choose to respect.  But see my disclaimer at 
the end and also my other reply that hinted at this.

Cheers

	robert