Method: File.read_list

Defined in:
lib/core/facets/file/read_list.rb

.read_list(filepath, options = {}) ⇒ Object

Reads in a file, removes blank lines and removes lines starting with ‘#’ and then returns an array of all the remaining lines.

Thr remark indicator can be overridden via the :omit: option, which can be a regualar expression or a string that is match against the start of a line.

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# File 'lib/core/facets/file/read_list.rb', line 12

def self.read_list(filepath, options={})
  chomp = options[:chomp]
  omit  = case options[:omit]
          when Regexp
            omit
          when nil
            /^\s*\#/
          else
            /^\s*#{Regexp.escape(omit)}/
          end

  list = []
  readlines(filepath).each do |line|
    line = line.strip.chomp(chomp)
    next if line.empty?
    next if omit === line
    list << line
  end
  list
end