From: Collin Moore Date: 2009-10-13T04:27:12+09:00 Subject: remove specific text from line Hi thanks for all the help on my previous question, but now I am trying to clean up the output of some text output. currently I have: Time@110.075: EVENT: [LOG] *** DEBUG ACTION *** and I'd like it to have: 110.075:DEBUG ACTION : just for easy import into excel. Here is the current ruby file I am working with where is looked for lines with DEBUG and START in them. File.open('output.txt', 'w') do |f2| File.readlines("original.txt").each do |line| if line =~ /DEBUG/ || line =~ /START/ f2.puts line end end end Any ideas? thanks for your help :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.