2010/3/25 Jesù¸ Gabriel y GaláÏ <jgabrielygalan / gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Jesse B. <jessebos / aol.com> wrote:
>> Thank you Jesus,
>> Your solution is much more elegant.
>> However it leaves a blank line where my string was. any idea how to
>> close that gap?
>>
>> i.e.
>>
>> opening text
>> --/text to delete/--
>> closing text
>>
>> now renders as:
>>
>> opening text
>>
>> closing text
>>
>> and what I am going for is:
>>
>> opening text
>> closing text
>>
>> thanks again for all of your help!
>
> infile = File.read("input.txt")
> File.open("output.txt", "w") do |outfile|
> utfile.puts infile.split(%r{\n?--/.*?/--}m).join
> end
>
> Two changes:
>
> - I added an optional \n at the beggining of the matched area to cover
> that case, although there might be other corner cases.
> - I joined the array before writing it, because puts with an array
> prints a newline between each element.

If you slurp in the whole file anyway then you can do

content = File.read "input.txt"
content.gsub! %r{--/.*?/--}m, ''

File.open "output.txt", "w" do |out|
  out.write content
end

Kind regards

robert

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