From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2008-12-22T09:26:39+09:00
Subject: Re: get first and last line from txt file - how?

On Dec 20, 7:16 am, Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_coll...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Aside from the suggestions already made for getting just the last
line, there's also James Gray's Elif: http://elif.rubyforge.org/

HTH,
Chris