How to find at which line characters appear

Ruby
1

Hello,

I have a file that includes a “---------” string at a certain line
number. How can I find out at which line number the string occurs?
Would it be best to split the text file into an array with split("\n")
and then use a for loop or is there some other hidden methods in ruby?

Basically I want to start reading a text file after the “---------” line
that appears in it.

Can someone help please?

Thanks in advance.

2

f = File.open(‘filename’)
until f.gets.chomp == “---------”; end
#continue processing here

That should do the trick. The next line returned by f.gets will be the
first line after the “--------”. If you want the actual line number,
f.lineno should give it to you.

-Brett

3

Al Cholic wrote:

Hello,

I have a file that includes a “---------” string at a certain line
number. How can I find out at which line number the string occurs?
Would it be best to split the text file into an array with split("\n")
and then use a for loop or is there some other hidden methods in ruby?

Basically I want to start reading a text file after the “---------” line
that appears in it.

Can someone help please?

Thanks in advance.

2 methods come to my mind to do that:

  1. as you said, split and find what index in the array contains the line
  2. get the offset (String#index) of the first “---------”, count the
    "\n"s in the substring 0,offset.
    I’d assume that the second is faster.

Regards
Stefan

4

Whoops, I should have read this paragraph too:

Basically I want to start reading a text file after the “---------” line
that appears in it.

Then of course I’d do it just as Brett already said: read until you get
there not processing the data, then continue to read, this time
processing the data.

Regards
Stefan

5

Stefan R. wrote:

Whoops, I should have read this paragraph too:

Basically I want to start reading a text file after the “---------” line
that appears in it.

Then of course I’d do it just as Brett already said: read until you get
there not processing the data, then continue to read, this time
processing the data.

Regards
Stefan

Thanks for guys’ advice. I also came up with another way to get the
text.

def find_component_list(text)
/___+/.match(text).post_match.strip.split("\n")
end

Im using a regular expression.

How good is this in terms of efficiency compared to the other methods?