From: Kurt Euler <keuler@...>
Date: 2002-06-08T15:06:50+09:00
Subject: Help: Improper use of gsub?

All-

The code below correctly creates one copy of file "template.txt" for each line in the file "packages.txt", and names each copy with the text in field[0] in each line.

For each copy, I am trying to replace the string "<release_num>" with the file object fs (a very short file). However, the "<release_num>" string is not bing replaced. Am I making incorrect use of the gsub method (in 2nd line from bottom)? If so, please suggest a correction.

  content = File.new("template1.txt").read
  fs = File.new("fiddle.sticks").read
  IO.foreach("packages.txt") { |x|
    field = x.chop.split(':')
    content2 = content
    content2.gsub(/<release_num>/, fs)
    File.new(field[0],"w+").write(content2)
  }

Thanks.

-Kurt Euler