On Wednesday, December 24, 2003, 6:28:28 PM, Xeno wrote:

> I want to slurp up two files and substitute one file in another for a symbol
> in that file's data.  In Perl I may simply do this all in memory. Is there a
> limit in Ruby string size that prevents this, or is there an easier more elegant
> way about it?  Thanks

You can slurp a file with File.read(path), and perform a substitution
with String#sub(re, str).

Gavin