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@simpsora: any suggestions for a good way to parse multi-line messages in ruby? have command output which consists of blocks of 3 lines each, need to process each block together @sj26: maybe using scan and multiline regex?

$ ruby multiline.rb multiline.txt
["thing", "whatsit"]
["thang", "poppy"]
["thung", "scooby doo"]
["thong", "shaggy"]

multiline.rb

ARGF.read.scan(/^Start: (.*)\nmiddle=(.*)\nEnd\./) do |match|
  puts match.inspect
end

multiline.txt

Start: thing
middle=whatsit
End.
Start: thang
middle=poppy
End.
Start: thung
middle=scooby doo
End.
Start: thong
middle=shaggy
End.