Ruby ???

[james tate]

On 05/19/2011 09:24 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> On 05/18/2011 07:40 PM, Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus wrote:
>> Well, the script isn't too long so you can open it easily with
>> gedit, kate or your favorite editor and remove the repeated number
>> of line and that's all. You don't need to complicate your life.
>>
>> Good Luck:
>> Aradnix
>>
> You like doing things the hard way. He said this was only the first
> 25 lines, so we do not know how long it is. I would probably do
> something like:
>
> sed -e "s@^[0-9]*[ ]*@@" input.file>  output.file
>
> This not only removes the line numbers, but the spaces after them as
> well. If what shows up as spaces in the posting are really tabs, a
> small change is required:
>
> sed -e "s@^[0-9]*\t@@" input.file>  output.file
>
> This also has the advantage of only removing the first tab, and
> leaving all the other formatting the same. The first version will
> remove all the spaces after the number until it hits a non-space
> character. That would probably mess up any indentation in the script.
>
> Mikkel
Well !!  If I knew anything about Ruby, I wouldn't have done it the hard 
way.