From: John Smith <edvelez.g@...>
Date: 2010-09-19T02:42:01+09:00
Subject: Re: search and replace

Hmm it works perfect for what I asked.. but I realized I will probably 
need it more
granular. Instead of the first occurrence within a file, the first 
ocurrence in a line.

As of now it works, for this  case:

1 4
1 5
1 4
1 5

one four
1 5
1 4
1 5

However,

If we have :
1 4 1 4 1 5

it will put
one four one four one 5

and I want:
one four 1 4 1 5

From here I suppose it would be a matter of working with the line. Is 
there a command to replace first occurrence of a word in a line with 
another word?

Something like:

line.detect_first_occurrence_and replace("1", one).

Ted.

line_changed = true
Jeremy Bopp wrote:
> On 09/18/2010 11:14 AM, John Smith wrote:
>> one four
>> 1 4
>> 1 5
>> 1 4
>> 1 5
> 
> Alright, so you only want a search/replace pair to apply to a single
> line in the file to be processed.  After the search/replace pair has
> been applied one time, it should be dropped from the list of pairs to
> try so that it cannot be used on subsequent lines.  Try this:
> 
> changes = [
>   ['string1', 'replacement1'],
>   ['string2', 'replacement2'],
>   ...
> ]
> 
> File.open('somefile') do |f|
>   f.each do |line|
>     line_changed = false
>     changes.each do |change|
>       if line.sub!(change[0], change[1]) then
>         line_changed = true
>         changes.delete(change)
>         puts line
>         break
>       end
>     end
>     puts line unless line_changed
>   end
> end
> 
> 
> -Jeremy

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