From: Chandu80 <chandu.shenoy@...>
Date: 2010-11-09T16:10:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Identify IP address from a text file and replace it with new address.

On Nov 8, 5:48 pm, Alexey Bovanenko <a.bovane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> Hi!
>
> I think you can use the following code:
>
> text=IO.read(filename_of_file_with_ip)
> text.gsub!(/test_site\s*\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}/i,"0.0.0.0") #
> 0.0.0.0 - it's my new ip
> f=File.new("outtxt","w")
> f.write(text)
> f.close
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Chandu80 <chandu.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > I want to write a script by which I can open up a text file,scan
> > through it,find the line which contains the word 'test_site',get the
> > IP address corresponding to that word, replace that IP with another IP
> > address and then save and close the file.
> > Are there any commands in Ruby to identify IP address from a string?
>
> > Thanks in advance
>
> > Regards
> > Chandrika
>
> --
> With regards,
> Alexei Bovanenko

Hi,
Thanks for the response.It did work.However isn't there a provision to
edit the same file and save it?

Regards
Chandrika