From: bobx@... (Bob)
Date: 2002-03-09T11:53:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Text stuff and appending to a file

> That's quite a large file. Instead of reading everything to memory,
> how about reading one line at a time:
> 
> # create a file to append data found from the input file
> logfile = File.open("badwords.txt", "w+")
> # search for a word and print the entire line
> File.open(ARGV[0]) { |file|
>   file.each_line { |line|
>     if /bob/i =~ line
>        print line
>        logfile.write line
>     end
>   }
> }
> 
> Also consider using ruby 1.7 which has a much improved IO from what I
> heard.
> 
> YS.
Well not being a programmers programmer and on Windows 1.7 is out of
reach for me. I humbly rely on Andy for his rollup and I even give bug
reports from time to time. : )

But...time is not an issue for me when reading the file so I can wait.