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> On Jan 12, 7:37 pm, "itsme213" <itsme... / hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have a file of code that has "!"-delimited lines and other non !-delimited
> > lines. I want to remove all the "!"-delimited lines
>
> > !some stuff that i do not want!
>
> > lots of other stuff that i want
> > lots of other stuff that i want
>
> > !some stuff that i do not want!
>
> > lots of other stuff that i want
> > lots of other stuff that i want
>
> > What would be a simple ruby script to use regex and remove all the
> > !....!
> > lines?
>
> > Thanks!
>
> awk "!/!/" myfile >newfile
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> ruby -pne "next if /!/" myfile >newfile
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> > Oops, spoke too soon. The file seems to have just '\r' at the end
> > of each line (Unix vs. Windows?).
>
> > IO.readlines(myfile)[0] gives
> > #=>"good stuff\r!badstuff!\rMore good stuff\r!More bad stuff!\r"
>
> ruby -pne "BEGIN{$/=13.chr}; next if /!/" myfile >newfile

The trick here is setting $/ to the value you want. For more
information, see:
http://phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/language.html#inputoutputvariables