From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2009-08-31T19:05:53+09:00
Subject: Re: text lines manipulation

Hi,

Am Montag, 31. Aug 2009, 18:46:53 +0900 schrieb George George:
> have a set of lines like shown below:
> #set1
> 1-3
> 3-5
> 6-7
> #set2
> 20-23
> 450-550
> #set3
> 1-50
> 20-56
> 
> The idea is to read each of the lines associated with each set and do
> some manipulation?

Untested:

  file.each_line { |l|
    l.chomp!
    case l
      when /^#/ then set = $'
      else
        do_sth_with set, l
    end
  }

Bertram


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