From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-12-16T06:53:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Extracting multiple lines from a file

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Coutts [mailto:rcoutts@envistatech.com] 
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 2:14 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Extracting multiple lines from a file
> 
> 
> This should be an easy question for Ruby-heads but I can't 
> seem to easily find the answer.  I need to extract multiple 
> lines from a file where the lines are delimited by some other 
> text.  For example, with file contents as shown below I'd 
> like to extract the content between the BEGIN_FOO and END_FOO 
> lines.  Can anyone tell me how to do that?  
> 
> BEGIN_FOO
> Some foo stuff here.
> More foo stuff.
> END_FOO
> 
> I've done this before in Perl (can't remember the syntax) so 
> I'm thinking it should be possible in Ruby.
> 
> Ron

See the second argument to IO#readlines.  Or, you can set $/ manually -
same as Perl. :)

Regards,

Dan