From: Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...>
Date: 2008-12-20T23:16:26+09:00
Subject: get first and last line from txt file - how?

I have txt file with date/time stamps only. I want to grab the first
date/time and the last date/time. For instance, I will be needing
08/09/08 3:00 and 08/24/08 3:00 from the below queued.txt. Do you know
how I can pull these out? Thanks in advance.

queued.txt
8/09/08 3:00
8/10/08 5:00
8/23/08 22:00
8/24/08 3:00

firstDate = ""
lastDate = ""

File.open('queued.txt', 'r') do |f1|
 while line = f1.gets
   if f1.lineno ==  1 then #<-this would only give me 8/09/08 3:00
    @@fistDate = f1
   end
end
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