From: Fosiul Alam <lists@...>
Date: 2012-08-13T16:58:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Delete a lines from a files

Jan E. wrote in post #1072105:
> Guys, you really need to stop wanking off over your great Ruby skills
> and maybe post a solution that an average user can actually understand
> and integrate in his code.

LOl thanks , those one liner was bit hard for me to understand ..

>
> We all know you are the greatest Ruby hackers on earth with the fanciest
> one-liners ever. But I think we're here to help and not to masturbate
> all day long.
>
> What about a simple solution?
>
> old_file = 'test.txt'
> new_file = 'test2.txt'
> File.open new_file, 'w' do |file|
>   # loop over the lines of old_file and write those
>   # not beginning with "john" to new_file
>   File.foreach old_file do |line|
>     file << line unless line.start_with? 'john'
>   end
> end

this code will work perfect ..

thanks

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