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Re: pattern matching and array methods

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Dhruva Sagar wrote in post #995263:
> Something like this should do it :
>
> line.each {|l| puts l if l =~ /^(1:2)|(1:3)|(1:4)/}

That's a poor answer, because your regexp isn't anchored properly. It 
would match "5:6 abc1:3def" and "1:23 foobar" for example.

I suggest using the regexp to parse the line, then using numeric 
testing. This makes it easier to solve the other example of 3:9 to 3:31

lines.each do |line|
  if line =~ /^(\d+):(\d+)/
    major, minor = $1.to_i, $2.to_i
    puts line if major == 3 and (9..31).include?(minor)
  end
end

Note that you don't need to read the whole file in at once using 
readlines; you can read and process it one line at a time. This lets it 
work on huge files which are too big to fit into RAM.

File.open("...") do |file|
  file.each_line do |line|
    if line =~ ... as before
      ...
    end
  end
end

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  Re: pattern matching and array methods Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 23:27 -0500
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  Re: pattern matching and array methods Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 00:19 -0500
  Re: pattern matching and array methods Dhruva Sagar <dhruva.sagar@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 01:32 -0500
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