File position and buffers

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Hi all,

In a bit of a rut. Have a file with a lot of text. I want to seperate
the text in this file as entries. Each entry that I would be seperating,
would be done so using IO.pos and when that cursor reaches a certain
character in the file, it will ideally place all the content before that
character into a buffer. Then the cursor will continue reading until it
hits that same character again and put that content into a buffer, so on
and so forth. (Character I'll be reading would be a greater than symbol)

 Would I use a do iterator or use a while loop with a gets method? Or
readlines perhaps?

File:
>entry 1
rubyrubyrubyrubyrubyrubyrubyruby
(newline here which I don't want)
>entry 2
rubyrubyrubyrubyrubyrubyrubyruby

Entry1 and entry2 will be in seperate buffers which I would be able to
access again.

buffer1 = >entry 1
rubyrubyrubyrubyrubyrubyrubyruby

buffer2 = >entry 2
rubyrubyrubyrubyrubyrubyrubyruby


PS. The file is huge, so I don't want to read it into memory. What is
the best way to approach this? Any suggestions or comments would be
helpful. Thanks!

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File position and buffers Cee Joe <cyril_jose@ymail.com> - 2011-04-27 15:02 -0500
  Re: File position and buffers Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 16:47 -0500
  Re: File position and buffers jake kaiden <jakekaiden@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-27 17:33 -0500
  Re: File position and buffers 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-27 19:08 -0500
  Re: File position and buffers 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-27 19:50 -0500
  Re: File position and buffers Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-28 02:54 -0500
    Re: File position and buffers 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-28 13:06 -0500
      Re: File position and buffers 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-28 13:25 -0500
        Re: File position and buffers Cee Joe <cyril_jose@ymail.com> - 2011-04-28 13:29 -0500
  Re: File position and buffers Cee Joe <cyril_jose@ymail.com> - 2011-04-28 09:06 -0500
  Re: File position and buffers 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-28 12:47 -0500
    Re: File position and buffers Cee Joe <cyril_jose@ymail.com> - 2011-04-28 13:27 -0500
      Re: File position and buffers 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-28 18:31 -0500
        Re: File position and buffers Cee Joe <cyril_jose@ymail.com> - 2011-04-28 20:05 -0500
  Re: File position and buffers 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-28 21:58 -0500
    Re: File position and buffers Cee Joe <cyril_jose@ymail.com> - 2011-04-29 10:20 -0500
  Re: File position and buffers jake kaiden <jakekaiden@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-28 22:36 -0500
  Re: File position and buffers 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-29 12:50 -0500
    Re: File position and buffers Cee Joe <cyril_jose@ymail.com> - 2011-04-29 13:32 -0500
      Re: File position and buffers 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-29 17:45 -0500
  Re: File position and buffers jake kaiden <jakekaiden@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-29 15:38 -0500
  Re: File position and buffers Cee Joe <cyril_jose@ymail.com> - 2011-04-29 16:10 -0500

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