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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
require 'rubygems' | |
require 'activesupport' | |
class StringReplacer | |
NEWLINE = "AijQA6tD1wkWqgvLzXD" | |
START_MARKER = '# START StringReplacer %s -- DO NOT MODIFY' | |
END_MARKER = "# END StringReplacer %s -- DO NOT MODIFY#{NEWLINE}" | |
attr_accessor :path | |
def initialize(path) | |
@path = path | |
end | |
def replace!(replacement, id = 1) | |
new_path = "#{path}.new" | |
backup_path = "#{path}.bak" | |
current_start_marker = START_MARKER % id.to_s | |
current_end_marker = END_MARKER % id.to_s | |
replacement_with_markers = current_start_marker + NEWLINE + replacement + NEWLINE + current_end_marker | |
text = IO.read(path).gsub("\n", NEWLINE) | |
if text.include? current_start_marker | |
text.gsub! /#{Regexp.escape current_start_marker}.*#{Regexp.escape current_end_marker}/, replacement_with_markers | |
else | |
text << NEWLINE << replacement_with_markers | |
end | |
text.gsub! NEWLINE, "\n" | |
File.open(new_path, 'w') { |f| f.write text } | |
FileUtils.mv path, backup_path | |
FileUtils.mv new_path, path | |
end | |
end | |
r = StringReplacer.new File.expand_path("~/Desktop/foo.txt") | |
r.replace! "Foo Bar" | |
puts IO.read("~/Desktop/foo.txt") |
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