From: Gary Watson <pfharlock@...>
Date: 2010-09-18T04:25:33+09:00
Subject: Re: search and replace

John Smith wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I want to be able to run a program that will do a bunch
> of searches specified in an array of strings, and replace the
> first occurrence of those strings with strings specified on a
> second array for a given text file.
> 
> What would be the best way to do this?
> 
> Ted.

try

(["one", "two", "three", "four"].zip ["crazy", "monkeys", "go", "to", 
"school"]).collect {|tuple| tuple[0].gsub("o", tuple[1])}.
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