Re: Is there a easy way to find and replay a match

[Tor Erik Linnerud]

> If I have file and has a line is "aaa=100", and need to replace it as
> "aaa=4".

> puts File.read('somefile')
foo
aaa=100
bar

> puts File.read('somefile').sub('aaa=100', 'aaa=4')
foo
aaa=4
bar

Tor Erik
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[Cheyne Li]

I need "aaa=4" in the file instead of just print out

[David Masover]

On Wednesday 28 May 2008 18:18:09 Cheyne Li wrote:
> I need "aaa=4" in the file instead of just print out

No offense, but this was pretty much handed to you. You should be able to get
the rest of the way yourself...

> >> print File.read('somefile').sub('aaa=100', 'aaa=4')

string = File.read('somefile').sub('aaa=100','aaa=4')
open('somefile','w'){|f| f.write string}

By the way: DON'T do it this way in a real program. It's not at all safe.
Learn about temporary files and file IO.

[Tor Erik Linnerud]

Cheyne Li wrote:
> I need "aaa=4" in the file instead of just print out

File.open('somefile', 'r+') do |file|
content = file.read.sub('aaa=100', 'aaa=4')
file.seek(0)
file.write(content)
}

Read more about File at
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html

although this documentation isn't the easiest to follow.

[Heesob Park]

Hi,

Cheyne Li wrote:
> Hi,there

>
> If I have file and has a line is "aaa=100", and need to replace it as
> "aaa=4".

> Is there a way to do it without iterating each line and find the match,
> then replace it? Thank in advance

ruby -i -pe'gsub(/aaa=100/,"aaa=4")' somefile

Regards,

Park Heesob

[Cheyne Li]

Thanks a lot, it really helped. But I don't know why if i use regular
expression to match the pattern "aaa=.*", it's not working with sub, but
gsub.