From: "Jesse B." <jessebos@...>
Date: 2010-03-26T01:19:12+09:00
Subject: index of string from beginning of line vs beginning of file

I am trying to write a basic script to implement "silent comments"
In the example anything from "input.txt" that is enclosed between "--/"
and "/--" will not be output to "output.text" It appears that the
problem I am having is that the opening string is indexed from beginning
of file, whereas the closing string is indexed from beginning of line.
So I would like to figure out why.
Also when using Ruby1.9 there is an error message about using "each"
with a string that I need to find a workaround to.
any help is greatly appreciated. thanks in advance.
here is the code:

infile = IO.readlines('input.txt','').to_s
outfile = File.new("output.txt", "w")
begins = "--/"
ends = "/--"
start_ss = infile.index(begins)
end_ss = infile.index(ends)
infile[start_ss, end_ss] = ""

infile.each {
  |i|
  outfile.write i
  }
  puts start_ss
  puts end_ss
outfile.close()
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