Use A Regular Expression Substitution On The Contents Of A File

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        The following code can be used to replace content inside a file. Be warned however, that it loads the contents of the file into memory.
I chose this solution because i didn't want to use a temporary file.

def replace_in_file(filename, s, r)
  lines = []
  File.open(filename, "r"){|f| lines = f.readlines }
  lines = lines.inject([]){|l, line| l << line.gsub(s, r)}
  File.open(filename, "w"){|f| f.write(lines) }
end

Tags:
• regex
• Ruby