From: Rong <ron.green@...>
Date: 2008-09-15T05:32:16+09:00
Subject: Re: insert into textfile

Actually, that was close.
This is what I was kind of looking for.

content = File.read('exam.txt')
content.sub!("\n","\nNew Content\n")
File.open('exam.txt','r+').write(content)

But this doesn't work if the first line doesn't end in a new line
character.

On Sep 14, 7:33 am, thomas peklak <thomas.pek...@gmail.com> wrote:
> content = File.read('test.txt')
> content.sub!("\n","\n\n")
> File.open('test.txt','w').write(content)
>
> sub does replace the first occurence of a new line in the file
>
> thomas