From: pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
Date: 2009-05-15T05:44:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Can you get the 1st occurrence of a value using grep?

lines.detect {|l| l =~ /fail/}


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can you get a 1st occurence of a sting inside a huge text file?
>
> For instance, I  know that there will be 1 or more occurrences of a the
> string 'fail' in a text file and I only want to get the first line
> containing the 'fail' instead of getting every line with a fail. My
> program reads over 100 files that may contain one or more 'fail' values.
>
> Thanks
> MC
>
> Dir["//MYFile/*.txt"].each do |textfile|
>    getGrepOffense = textfile.grep(/fail/)
>    strOffense = getGrepOffense.join
>    puts strOffense
> end
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>



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