From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2010-05-13T02:29:34+09:00
Subject: Re: reading file after a particular line in file

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Vandana <nairvan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
>      I would like to read a file in ruby. It is a 2G file, but
> contain useless data in the beginning portion of the file.
>
> There is a particular pattern towards the middle of the file after
> which useful data begins. Is there a way to grep for this pattern and
> then read every line henceforth, but ignore all lines previous to line
> on which pattern found?

Grep is going to have to read the file to find that pattern anyway.


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