From: Vandana Date: 2008-10-25T06:05:04+09:00 Subject: help with regular expressions Hi all, I'm fairly new to programming with regular expressions. I would like some help with the following. Consider the format given below as what I will receive in a file. While reading from the file, Im interested only in reading those lines that have the forward-slash' in them (lines 9,10,12, 13). How can I do this in ruby? 1. ------------------------------- 2. Version 2.05 bla bla 3. bla bla 4. bla 5. 6. ------------------------------ 7. xx 0.0 4.5 6.7 8. xx (yy) 2.0 4.5 5.6 9. a/b/c/d () 6.0 2.0 3.4 10. a/b/c/d (yy) 11. 12. h/j/k/l/m 5.0 9.0 8.9 13. h/j/k/l/m () 14. 15. xx 0.0 0.0 0.0 16. yy 8.9 8.9 8.0 17. --------------------------------------- Thank you for your time & help Vandana