From: Gary Watson <pfharlock@...>
Date: 2010-09-18T04:28:09+09:00
Subject: Re: search and replace

Gary Watson wrote:
> 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])}.

forgot to add, the output is

["crazyne", "twmonkeys", "three", "ftour"]

not sure if that's what you wanted, but maybe it'll give you some ideas.
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