From: Rodrigo Bermejo <rodrigo.bermejo@...>
Date: 2009-10-09T05:23:59+09:00
Subject: Re: find a print out a line

Collin Moore wrote:
> Hi
> I am slowly learning Ruby and working on a solution.  I have huge text
> files with tons of garbage and I want to extract just specific lines
> including the word 'TestPhase'.
> 
> Looking for simple solutions, just struggling with the problem.
> 
> Thanks in advance for advice and help.

is there a famous one-liner for this ..but its not good for a learning 
experience.

This is ok for starters.


File.readlines("file.txt").each do |line|
  puts line if line =~ /TestPhase/
end

have fun
you got homework ..
things to read more about:
File.read* methods
=~ (regular expresions)

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