Oscar Lok wrote: > Hi, everybody > > This is my first time get into this forum. > I would like to know that is it a forum for us to discuss about > everythings in Ruby, please? > If so, > 1)I would like to know that how can I delete or remove a line in a text > file, please? > 2)How can I read some letter in a line, please? > e.g. a text file like this:- > > aabbcc > ddeeff > gghhii > jjkkll > > 1)I want to delete ddeeff become like this:- > aabbcc > gghhii > jjkkll -------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/ruby data=<<EOF aabbcc ddeeff gghhii jjkkll EOF puts "Before:",data data.sub!(/ddeeff\n/,"") puts "\nAfter:",data -------------------------------------------------- Output: Before: aabbcc ddeeff gghhii jjkkll After: aabbcc gghhii jjkkll > > 2)I get the result like :- > hh Please explain the circumstances under which you want to get this result. -- Paul Lutus http://www.arachnoid.com