From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-09-19T11:30:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Why IO#readlines does'nt accept a Regexp?

On Friday, September 19, 2003, 11:20:47 AM, Gavin wrote:

> Or if you want to use the latest and greatest:

>   require 'set'
  
>   words = Set.new
>   IO.foreach("myfile") do |line|
>     line.scan(/\w+/).each { |w| words << w }
>   end

One better:

  require 'set'

  words = Set.new
  IO.foreach("myfile") do |line|
    words.merge(line.scan(/\w+/))
  end

Gavin