From: "Erik Bågfors" <erik@...>
Date: 2002-03-10T03:34:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Text stuff and appending to a file

On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 15:19, Bob wrote:
> I have the following that works:
> 
> # open a file and read it
> input = File.open(ARGV[0], "r")
> 
> # create a file to append data found from the input file
> logfile = File.new("badwords.txt", "w+").close

Why do you close this?
Also. For append you should you "a" and not "w+"

> # search for a word and print the entire line
> while line = gets()
>   if /bob/i =~ line  
>     print line
>   end
> end
> 
> I would like the lines that it finds with "bob" to print to the
> console and append to the logfile.
> 

And what's the problem??

---
logfile.puts line
puts line
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added in the "if"-statement should do it!

/Erik

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