From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-03-09T05:37:28+09:00
Subject: Re: How To: Read a paragraph at a time

James Davis wrote:

> I am new to Ruby and am trying to write a simple program that reads a
> text file, counts the number of paragraphs, and processes each one.


Perhaps something like

irb(main):035:0> work_txt = "1a\n1b\n1c\n\n2a\n2b\n2c"
"1a\n1b\n1c\n\n2a\n2b\n2c"
irb(main):036:0> puts work_txt
1a
1b
1c

2a
2b
2c
nil
irb(main):037:0> puts work_txt.scan(/(.+\n)+/).length
2
nil

then

work_txt.scan(/(.+\n)+/).each do |para|
   # ...
end


Tobi

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