From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-08-17T21:01:20+09:00
Subject: Re: String manipulation: cut, insert, column editing...

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Hi Eric --

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Eric I. wrote:

> On Aug 12, 3:09=A0pm, Toki Toki <tok...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is it possible to use ruby like awk, sed or cut in unix to editing
>> strings?
>>
>> Let say I have to write INSERT query like this:
>>
>> This is the first (1=B0) item.
>> This is the second (2=B0) item.
>> This is the third (3=B0) item.
>> ..
>>
>> In one file I have the word-number (first, second, third) and in another
>> file I have the real number (1=B0, 2=B0, 3=B0) of the item, both on each=
 line.
>
> Here's some Ruby code that may do what you're interested in:
>
> =3D=3D=3D=3D
>
> d1 =3D open("f1.txt") do |f|
>  f.readlines.map { |line| line.chomp }
> end

You can even skip the readlines and just map the IO handle:

   f.map {|line| line.chomp }


David

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