Ruby: Is there a better way to iterate over multiple (big) files?
- by zxcvbnm
Here's what I'm doing (sorry for the variable names, I'm not using those in my code):
File.open("out_file_1.txt", "w") do |out_1|
File.open("out_file_2.txt", "w") do |out_2|
File.open_and_process("in_file_1.txt", "r") do |in_1|
File.open_and_process("in_file_2.txt", "r") do |in_2|
while line_1 = in_1.gets do
line_2 = in_2.gets #input files have the same number of lines
#process data and output to files
end
end
end
end
end
The open_and_process method is just to open the file and close it once it's done. It's taken from the pickaxe book.
Anyway, the main problem is that the code is nested too deeply. I can't load all the files' contents into memory, so I have to iterate line by line. Is there a better way to do this? Or at least prettify it?
