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OscarRyz
OscarRyz

Reputation: 199215

Easy question: Read file, reverse it and write to another file in Ruby

I have: 

 o = File.new("ouput.txt", "rw+")
 File.new("my_file.txt").lines.reverse_each { |line|
       ?????  line 
 }
 o.close

I don't know what method to use to write to the file output o

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2793

Answers (4)

bob
bob

Reputation: 605

For large files, avoid using readlines, as it'll be really slow/inefficient. Consider using a gem like Elif for this sort of thing.

Upvotes: 0

glenn mcdonald
glenn mcdonald

Reputation: 15478

puts understands arrays, so you can simplify this to:

File.open("f2.txt","w") {|o| o.puts File.readlines("f1.txt").reverse}

Upvotes: 6

OscarRyz
OscarRyz

Reputation: 199215

I knew it was easy, what I don't quite get is why is not documented here?

o = File.new("ouput.txt", "w+")
File.new("my_file.txt").lines.reverse_each { |line|
    o.puts line 
}
o.close

Upvotes: 0

RyanScottLewis
RyanScottLewis

Reputation: 14016

You're gonna wanna do something more like...

new_text = File.readlines('my_file').reverse.join
File.open('my_file', 'w+') { |file| file.write(new_text) }

Check out this documentation to figure out what w+ means.

Upvotes: 0

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