From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2009-10-12T11:08:42+09:00
Subject: Re: find a print out a line

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:35:11 +0900, R端diger Bahns wrote:

> Collin Moore schrieb:
>> 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.
> 
> To reduce the array File.readlines returns to only the lines that
> contain 'TestPhase' use
> 
> File.readlines('file.txt').grep /TestPhase/

If you don't want to store the whole file in memory while you're grepping 
it, then the following will work better.

open('jasmin.txt'){|f| f.each_line.grep /TestPhrase/}



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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/