From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2002-12-03T23:44:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Conditional block operations

Emmanuel Touzery wrote:

> Shannon Fang wrote:
>
>>
>> I think for this case, the easist way might be
>>
>> file.each do |line|
>>   a, b = line.split(pattern) if line !~ /^\s*$/
>> end 
>
>
> grep could help, unfortunately I don't know if it can be negated (eg 
> "all but the matches").
>
> emmanuel

actually \S is "non whitespace character", so this is ok:

file.grep /^\S+$/ do |line|
    a, b = line.split pattern
end

emmanuel
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