From: Eddie Catflap <catflaporama@...>
Date: 2011-07-15T10:20:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a more efficient way to remove data from a string?

Awesome stuff. Thanks to all that replied. It really is appreciated.

Regards

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:54:48AM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
>>
>> I'd probably do it something like this:
>>
>>     ARGF.each_line do |line|
>>       line.sub!(/#{reg1}.*/, '')
>>       puts line
>>     end
>
> Actually, I did too literal a translation of your code.  If I was writing
> this from scratch, I probably would have done this instead:
>
>    ARGF.each_line {|line| puts line.sub(/#{reg1}.*/, '') }
>
> . . . or this:
>
>    ARGF.each_line do |line|
>      puts line.sub(/#{reg1}.*/, '')
>    end
>
> Which I would choose would depend on whether I felt it looked better
> amidst my other code in the file on one line or three, and on whether I
> expected I might need to add more lines later.
>
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